I enter a nearby canteen, having just thrown synth pork into the face of a businesswoman, completing a humiliation job I was hired for. I browse the job listings by the phone when my enforcer scanner comes alive with report of a murder. I look at the map and it is in a nearby apartment building, so I sprint to the address listed. As the elevator slows to the floor of the murder, I see the security door is shut. I climb into a nearby vent, exit in a neighbor’s apartment, leave, run to the security panel, pick the lock, turn off the cameras so I would not be seen, and make a dash for the murder scene, opening the apartment with a key found under the door mat. A short brown-haired man is sitting on the couch, next to a toy car. I whip out my handcuffs and arrest him. I proceed to the bedroom, finding a body crumpled over itself. There is an 8mm cartridge next to the body, and another toy car. I take the victim's prints and analyze the body; she was killed by a handgun. I run to the handcuffed man and search him; he has an 8mm handgun. Got him!
I hear the security door raising, so it is time to leave. I run out of the apartment, just as enforcers rush through the security door with weapons drawn. I head to the neighbor's house that I had just sneaked through and knock on the door. They answer. I ask if he had seen anything strange recently, to which he provided that a short brown-haired man was seen around the apartment at the time of the murder and they were clearly angry. Got him!
The enforcers are still around, so I head up the stairs, looking for the building's management office. I find it on the 7th floor. I pick the office’s lock and close the door behind me. I open the surveillance footage, and navigate to the cameras outside the victim's apartment. Only the victim and the short brown-haired man were on camera. Nobody else comes or goes from the apartment. Got him!
I head back down to the apartment. As the enforcers finish clearing the murder scene, they exit and leave a guard out front. I slink into the apartment, shut the door, and head back to the bedroom, then rifling through the documents in the wardrobe. It seems the short brown-haired man is the victim's spouse. It is always the spouse; got him!
I head back to the short, brown-haired man and grab his prints, then scan the bedroom for prints. There are tons of hits for the victim and the short brown-haired man. However, the toy car next to the victim has prints that do not belong to victim or her spouse... That is suspicious; might be worth looking into.
Digging into the victim and spouse's email histories, they both seem happy together. Maybe it is not this guy. Scanning the rest of the apartment, all finger and foot prints match the victim and spouse; that small toy car is the only exception. I should try to find some other leads. I place a tracker on the spouse, then head to the victim's workplace.
Once there, I notice a picture board behind the counter showing the victim and her co-workers. I pin the co-workers' profiles onto my murder board before seeing a note nearby. "The password to the office is 1234"; classic. I punch the code into the door, turn off the cameras, and open the filing cabinet. The worker files have fingerprint data, so I grab them for all the co-workers. No matches to the toy car.
By this point, the victim's spouse has been released, so I use the tracker to find them. I ask for their name, which they provide, and if they saw anything suspicious. They give me the same spiel about a short brown-haired person in the apartment. Odd that he would provide that statement, given it is a match for himself. The evidence all points to the spouse, but his cooperation and that darn toy car are dissolving my confidence.
With no additional leads, I start investigating the victim's neighbors. I start in the lobby, scanning the mailboxes around the victim's floors looking for fingerprints; no matches to the toy car. I scan the doors of the neighbors from 3 floors down from the victim to three floors up; no matches. Maybe it was one of the building's staff! I break back into the management office and review the worker files; no matches. What is going on here?!
Then it happened… Another murder is reported on the scanner, this time on the other side of town. I race to the scene, trying to beat the enforcers again. The security door is shut like usual, but there are no nearby vents. The enforcers run up behind me, so I stand aside, letting them clear the scene. I knock on a neighbor's apartment and a small woman answers the door. I get their name and fingerprints, then ask if they saw anything suspicious. "A short brown-haired person left at 0645." The same killer as the first victim? I wait for the enforcers to leave and sneak inside the victim’s apartment. I analyze the victim; killed by an 8mm handgun. There are six 8mm cartridges nearby and... another toy car. I scan the car for prints, and they match the prints from the first victim's toy car. The killer is taunting me! I run through the apartment looking for any info. The victim lives alone, works at a nearby pharmacy, and does not have any apparent enemies.
I sneak back out of the apartment, past the guard, and start searching for the management office. Finding it, I open the filing cabinet and look at the worker files; still no print matches. I jump on the cruncher, and look through all the individuals that were on the victim's floor, trying to find a short brown-haired man, when it happens... At 0645, a short brown-haired man was seen going down the stairs from the victim's floor. I pin their profile to the murder board, but I have no name, address, place of work, or anything I could use to find them. I head back downstairs, deciding to show the picture to the neighbor. Maybe she could confirm if this was the man she saw.
The neighbor answers the door again, and I show her a picture of my lead. "Oh, I work with him! His name is <REDACTED>. I saw him leave the victim's apartment at 0645." We have a solid lead now. I run down the stairs and out of the building, entering a nearby phone booth. I open the city directory, find his address, and head to it.
I arrive at their front door and scan for prints. No matches to the suspect. I knock on the door and a small blonde woman answers. I ask for her name, which she provides, and her fingerprints, which she refuses. I ask if I can show her a picture of the suspect, but she is not interested in identifying anyone. She is not being cooperative, but what can I do... That is when I see him. A short brown-haired man matching the surveillance footage walks by an open doorway behind the woman. I make a split-second decision to stop this here and now.
I whip out my truncheon, knock out the woman in front of me, enter the apartment, and shut the door. The short brown-haired man turns the corner, drawn to the commotion. The truncheon goes back to work and he goes down too, but not before he got some punches of his own in, leaving a bruise on me. I search him; he has 8mm ammo. Got him! I take his fingerprints; they are a match to the toy cars. Got him! I handcuff the man and begin searching for the murder weapon.
I search through the home finding work info, sales receipts, birth certificates, wallets, but no weapon. Nothing in the kitchen. Nothing in the bedroom. Bathroom never has anything, although I did find some Paxadol for my bruise. I dig through the office, nothing. I dig through the living room, nothing. Finally, I spot it. There is a drawer on the hi-fi gramophone that I didn't notice! In the drawer there was a self-help book. Underneath the book was a silenced 8mm Lazarus 5. I scan the handgun for prints and they, once again, match the suspect.
Having all the evidence I needed, I head for city hall. After validation of the info, they confirm everything I provided was correct! Case closed! I collect my payment and head back to the burger joint for a well-earned coffee and cheeseburger.

Gracias al Baity por descubrirme este juegazo

Этот город прогнил...

Grabbed a case to arrest somebody, the pay was very high so I was expecting very few details for the suspect, but you never know. As I opened their profile, only 4% of their information were on it, not much.
I knew they had grey eyes, name starts with a Z, and their partner was a Clinic Manager. Turns out I got lucky on that one because there is only 4 Clinics in the city, and only 1 manager per clinic, so I did that leg work and went to all clinics around town to grab the profile of all of their manager.
On my way to visit the first manager I got a new murder case so I make a small detour by the City Hall to get the case files, I thought I'd tackle this after my other case so I don't read anything and go straight to resume my first case.

As I arrive on the floor of the first Clinic Manager, I am surprised by some Crime Scene Tape on one of the door, turns out the victim of the murder case was the neighbour of my Clinic Manager, I thought that was a happy coincidence and went on to continue my first case.

No luck though, even though I checked their work hours and made sure I'd go in during that time, I didn't pay attention to the fact that we were Sunday so they were home. Since the murder case was right across the hallway, I went back to tackle that one in the meantime.

That murder case was a classic, gun shot wound, and not many clues as to who could have done this. One small detail though, in the corner of the room, between the desk and the bed, a crumbled paper on the floor which said "Let's Play", which sounded very Serial Killer to me, so I checked the fingerprint on it and got a direct match on a name. I thought that was somebody I already checked on a previous case and found it funny, but as I digged deeper, turns out it was the name of the Clinic Manager who lives across !

Pretty determined, I go back inside the home of that Clinic Manager and sneak in to get all the info I could.
I grab the ID of their partner who happens to have grey eyes and a name that starts with a Z, this cannot be a coincidence. On the way I also get a receipt on some ammo purchased by the Clinic Manager who happen to be the type of ammo who killed our murder victim.

The two lovebirds were the two different suspects on two different cases, and everything was procedurally generated.

Both cases: Solved
Mind: Blown

This game is a pure gem, can't wait to see what's next.

I had solved three or so murders before, but this one was a doozy. A dead janitor, killed in a small, one-room office off of a manufacturing floor. Gunshot wound, no casings, no bullet holes in the walls. "DEATH TO THE NEW GENERATION" was scrawled on the wall above the vic's corpse. The room was covered in prints, but they were either the victim's or his coworker, the security guard that works in the small office. I check him out -- other workers in the plant say they saw a muscular figure fleeing the scene around the time of the murder -- but it's no good. He has no obvious motive and when I search his apartment, I can't find a weapon or any ammunition that would indicate that he owns a gun.

I go back to the crime scene, trying to be thorough. I must have missed something. I looked around the body and there it is: a small toy car. What was it doing here? Was this the killer's calling card? There's a fingerprint on it, one I don't recognize. That's my killer, but it's hard to find out an identity just from a fingerprint. I can search the entire government database if I sneak into city hall at night, but that would take actual hours.

I was worried the case was going to get cold when the next day they kill again. A young woman shot and killed in her apartment. Same toy car left at the scene. Gunshot wound. "DEATH TO THE NEW GENERATION" on the wall. Witnesses can only describe the same muscular figure. I feel taunted. The single fingerprint isn't enough to go on. I try to find out anything linking the two victims together, cross reference their address books, see if they knew any of the same people. Nothing. Were they just random?

The next victim died in a lucky way -- outside on the street, where witnesses could see. Still nothing more specific than "muscular figure" but this time witnesses give me a timeline of where they were. Based on how the killer was moving, I think they lived in the area. All three victims were around one corner of the city. I'm getting frantic now, I know I'm close. I'm going into apartments and grabbing prints off of mailboxes. Surely one of them will match. Nothing.

I take a step back. There's something obvious, something I already know that I'm missing. What ties these victims together? I check over my case board. Then it hits me. Cause of death. Gunshot wounds. No casings left at the scene tells me that the killer used a revolver. I break into an arms dealer's shop at night, rifle through his sales records. There are eight people who bought guns or revolver ammunition before the first murder. It's an illegal arms dealer, so details are scarce, but I've got eight last names and that's enough to go on.

I use the city hall's database and start checking the names. First up, A. Rossi. Anatobella Rossi. It's her. The prints match. She bought a gun a few days before the first killing and it seems that she was a fast learner. I get her workplace and her home address. I know she's dangerous so I grab a ballistic vest and get on over to her apartment.

It's 11 am. She's at work, so I knock on the door. Her partner opens it. No time for games, I push my way into the apartment and handcuff him in the hallway, and start my search. The murder weapon isn't here -- Rossi is probably carrying it on her. I open every drawer and cupboard, break into her safe, nothing incriminating. But now I know where she is for sure.

I go over to her office and ask for a tour. The receptionist is friendly, let's me in. I go down the line of cubicles. Rossi is at the end. She's sitting there, typing. A marketing manager, of course -- who else could be capable of such violence? I savor the moment, but it's time to finish this. I handcuff her and search her -- there's the revolver. That's all I need. I got her name, her address, her prints at the crime scene, the murder weapon, and the perp in cuffs on the floor.

It's a cold walk back to city hall to hand in the case. I get paid, less than what I'd get if I done some dirty work for a corporation, but it's enough. I head outside, over to the bar. I'm getting thirsty.

That was a long story, so I'll keep this review short. SHADOWS OF DOUBT solves the perennial problem of mystery games: how do you allow the player to be entirely responsible for solving the mystery without running the risk of accidentally stopping progress because they can't solve the puzzle? The answer is that, through procedural generation of the cases, failure is not a wall. It's a door. If I had failed to solve that case, there would be no consequence beyond the continued killings and the knowledge that I just couldn't do it. You need to be a good detective, but the game gives you everything you need in order to become one. That case was especially difficult; no other killer gave me as much trouble as Rossi did (so far).

With procedural games, there often reaches a point where a savvy player begins to understand the systems well enough such that they can engage at a purely technical level. Will I ever reach a point where I'd be able to say "Okay, this case is of *this* type, which means that if I go *here* I can find the likely killers"? Maybe. I'm not there yet. But if I ever reach that point, I will have absolutely gotten my money's worth in time and stories like the one above.

Games great, buy it.

Dear devs,

Let me enjoy a cigarette with my coffee please. I want to sit in a diner at 3am with a coffee and cigarette and stress about my case. Thanks

>barge into apartment
>steal $200 worth of items
>finally take a look at the body
>killed via gunshot wounds
>gun with prints of the victim is next to the body
>matching caliber
>"oh so its a suicide"

it wasn't a suicide

Hired to find a wanted man. Managed to deduce it was the cashier at my local cafe. Cuffed the crook in broad daylight middle of his shift. The manager pulls out a handgun and puts some lead in me, but I don't mind, I get more lead from tap water in this town. Entire crowd of patrons and staff jump me, beating my ass. I drop a flashbang and book it to city hall to hand in my case. Payment of 2k crows. I can finally afford that lamp I wanted and hospital bill I did not want.

just another day in New Amsterdam

Did one of the quick gigs for cash, was supposed to find and vandalize an apartment of someone that messed with the wrong people. It went south, I ended up beating the tenant half to death, but finished the job. Immediately after, I take a job from the person I had beat to a pulp not even 30 minutes afterwords. I was sent to vandalize the apartment of the guy who gave me the job to vandalize the previous tenant.

I can't tell if that was random luck or out of genuine animosity. I love it.

Warren Spector, the director and producer of Deus Ex once said this,

"My ultimate dream is for someone to be foolish enough to give me the money to make what I call the One Block Role-Playing Game, where we simulate one building, one city block perfectly."

Shadows of Doubt is janky. Its buggy. It breaks. It often has poor performance.

Its also the closest thing I've ever seen to the vision of the One Block.

If you like those kinds of games, you need to try it.

The note on the "help wanted" board said the same thing as it always did - corporate client, experience in evidence collection required, discretion necessary. If you're unfamiliar with corpo-talk, it's a polite way of saying "we need you to rob somebody". The pay raised a few red flags; four thousand crows for a job like this usually meant minimal evidence to go on. But I needed to pay rent and keep the heat on, so I picked up the phone and dialled the number.

A few twists and turns later, I was holding a briefcase with the details of the mark, and it was just as I suspected. All the client had for me was a fingerprint, the mark's blood type, and the fact they had blue eyes. You have to wonder how they can get that information, yet somehow more identifying features elude them. Would it kill them to get a last known whereabouts? A head shot, maybe? But I digress - point is that I was going to have to canvas almost the entire city to figure out who this person was before I could kick their door down. So I grabbed a coffee, and headed back to my apartment to figure out my game plan.

My first thought was go through the government database, and brute force it until I found a citizen with matching prints. But something told me that if I sat in an enforcer's office for several hours straight wasting their printer paper, I'd wind up on my ass outside city hall with several new bruises. It would have to wait until I had a little more to go on.

It was then I had an idea that would narrow things down somewhat - this is a corporate client, asking me to commit corporate espionage. Ergo, it would make sense that the mark would be a member of another corporation; I highly doubted that they'd be after information from Adrianna's Pawn. That left four possible locations to work with - Coral Compounds, Henkerson's Workhouse, Azure Industries, and the whole Iwasaki Cascades tower block. The first three wouldn't be much of a problem, but Iwasaki was another story.

You see, Iwasaki is a combination residential and commercial property. Floors 1-4 are residential, 5-10 are office space, and 11-13 is the penthouse level. The good news is that it would contain almost every corpo in the city. The bad news is that it would contain every corpo in the city.

There was no way around it; this was going to take a while. So my plan was simple. Head to the security room in each of these buildings, and get CCTV photographs of as many unique people as I could. Then once I had those photographs, I could eliminate non-suspects by going through the list and checking them against the mark's description. If they had a known non matching print or eyes that weren't blue, they weren't suspects.

So that's exactly what I did. I grabbed a snack and some kola, headed to Iwasaki's security room, wedged the door in case any enforcers got cute, and started scanning the previous day's security footage. Several hours later I had a list of 90 something potential suspects. Some of them I knew, some of them I'd never seen before. Repeating the process at the other locations got me to well over 100 potential suspects. I headed back to my apartment, grabbed another coffee, and started narrowing down the suspect list, bringing me down to 20.

Of these 20 people, some of them didn't have names. But since I had a photo, I could probably ask around the residential floors of Iwasaki to get those. So with my list of 20 suspects in hand, I headed over to city hall, flipped a few crows to the supervisor at the front desk, and sat down at the government database. Now I was looking for a print match. Unfortunately, I came up blank. I now only had the 6 or so people remaining on my suspect list with an unknown name, but a known location. So I went back to Iwasaki, and started asking around.

I was worried at this point. I'd scanned 100 people and come up blank. While I did have a contingency plan - do the same thing at restaurants next - I knew that it would make things much more difficult. After all, you're not just looking at one block at that point, people from all over the city patronize burger joints. I'd have to start looking all over the city.

Flagging down a corpo and asking if they knew people directed to me to Ash Networks, which gave me a few people to look at. A look on the worker board gave me names for three suspects, and I figured since I was there I'd at least scan the employee files to see if I could get a print match - avoid pissing off the city hall employees any more than I had already, you know?

Jackpot. A matching print, and a photograph confirming who the suspect was. I had my Jane Doe.

With that sorted, I pivoted. This person had some documents which the client needed. The question was where. So I headed to Ash's safe, found the code for it from a note on the break room fridge, and punched it in. Nothing. I waited for the target to go to the bathroom, then rifled through her drawers. Nothing. Chances are it was probably at her house, so I logged onto her company profile. Turns out she lived three floors down in Apartment 202. That was where I would have to go.

It was around this time that work was getting out, so I was overstaying my welcome in the office. I left and made my way down three floors, waiting for the target to get back. As soon as she got in, I broke into the power box on that floor, engaged the security doors, and turned off the cameras. Just to make sure nobody tried anything. Then I booted the door, took her and her partner down with my baton, and started my search again. It wasn't in her personal safe, but after checking her drawers I found it. I left the two lovebirds with likely blunt force trauma, maybe a concussion, and went to hand in my document. After all, that's what corpo health insurance is for, right?

I won't say it's the easiest 4,000 crows I've ever earned. But it was by far the most satisfying. This game is full of moments like these, and I love it ever so much.

Muy buen juego, resolví mi primer caso a base de allanamiento de moradas, robo y agresión a civiles 100/10

Gracias BaityBait por recomendar esta joyita de juego.

I couldn't find the note for a safe so I took a trip to buy a codebreaker and it cracked the safe to reveal literally nothing inside except a note saying "don't forget this code" and it was the code to the safe.

12/10

In Shadows Of Doubt, gathering evidence to finger your man is only half the game.

When you think you've found your man, woman or other, and the house they reside in, remember:

Knock twice. Count to five. Drink your can of Starch Kola. Feel the energy flowing through your veins. Listen to them unlock the doors. Look into their eyes as the door opens. See the lives they've claimed. Feel the sword tucked within your trench-coat poking feverishly against you. It's not our job to be the executioner - not today. Close the door on them. Wait half a second for confusion to register...

Then let them have it. Slam that door open with the boot of God. Knock them cold on the ground and cuff 'em. It's not our job to be the executioner - we're justice personified. Turn 'em in after stealing their diamonds... Stop for a donut halfway there.

Get fined for arresting the wrong guy - but the fine is less than the price of the diamonds we already pawned off.

When the city is cast into the shadows of doubt, net gain is all that matters for someone who wants to retire some day...

Can't wait for survival mode to be added.

>broke into the suspects house
>knocked him and his girlfriend out
>realised I was at the wrong address

10/10

Ник Патерсон, криминальный гений, завершая убийство девушки в переулке без камер не оставляя никаких следов кроме отметок из помады на снегу и кусочка бумаги: "всё прошло как по маслу, этим тупым энфорсерам никогда меня не поймать".
Уверенной походкой Патерсон возвращается в офис где он работает секретарем. "Моё алиби завершено" - думает он про себя -"теперь меня точно никто не заподозрит".
5 минут после убийства всё идет по плану. Однако из окна лобби компании, он видит что в доме где он живет сработала сигнализация. "Опять мелкие воришки" думает Ник.
Едва успев переодеться в рабочую одежду Ник готовится сесть за свой личный кранчер, дабы отработать оставшийся день в офисе компании "Honey&Sons" что обеспечит ему идеальное алиби.
ХРЯСЬ. Кто то с грохотом вламывается через входную дверь офиса. Ник выглядывает сквозь внутреннее окно офисных помещений в сторону лобби и видит мокрого небритого психопата обмотанного бинтами чья куртка покрыта осколками битого стекла, в одной его руке полицейская дубинка покрытая свежей кровью жены Патерсона в другой бутылка крепчайшего виски который Ник сразу узнает как тот, что он прятал внутри столешницы своего личного офиса. Сирены принимаются гудеть и все камеры офиса направлены на ворвавшегося недоумка, оповещая полицию.
Прежде чем Ник успевает что то сказать, закричать или даже понять что происходит, сумасшедшая груда мяса проламывается сквозь внутреннюю дверь зоны доступной только личному персоналу. Менеджер офиса Ли что тоже внутри принимает инициативу быстрее остолбеневшего Патерсона и выбегает с криками "Вам нельзя сюда! Это зона только для персонала!" Однако туша и не планировала заходить в помещение, вместо этого проломленная дверь неуклюже закрывается, к непониманию Ника и Ли. Их удача оборачивается пятой точкой опоры однако, когда что то подкатывается к ноге менеджера. Вспышка яркого света покрывает комнату, Патерсон и Ли столбенеют в непонимании, а дверь вновь отворяется. Следующее что видит криминальный гений это пол, в глазах его всё двоится а на затылке чувствуется горячая жидкость стекающая на дорогой ковер.
"Имя убийцы - есть, оружие - есть, отпечатки - есть, адрес убийцы - есть, осталось только сдать бланк на обработку и можно отдохнуть"
Понимая что его раскрыли, Ник Патерсон пытается из последних сил встать и бежать, его последняя надежда это покинуть остров, но когда он пробует сорваться с места то чувствует что его руки скованы за спиной наручниками, а все камеры в офисе выключены.
Психопат выбегает из офиса с низкого старта и лишь спустя 7 минут от совершения убийства гениальный убийца уже арестован и за решеткой благодаря наводке профессионального идиота Армандо Бреиля, детектива в отставке.
"Ну с этим разобрались, теперь пора все таки закончить обустройство кухни" Все работники городского холла смотрят с полным уважения страхом на спину пошатывающегося детектива, когда тот выходит из помещения, найдя убийцу трупа которого полицейские еще не успели обнести ограждающей лентой.
10/10

In lieu of discussing the features and merits of Shadows of Doubt, I'd like to relay an anecdote from the game that will illustrate what it's like to play it.

Early in a run, my detective accepted a job to retrieve documents from an apartment - basically a B&E job, the kind of thing you do to support yourself between homicide investigations. I had an apartment building and a floor, but not an exact apartment number, so I was snooping around for clues as to which resident was the target. At one point, a man came to one of the doors and let himself in. I thought he might be the significant other, but the information didn't match.

As I turned my attention to another door, I heard the sound of gunfire from the apartment behind me. The man I'd passed had just killed one of the residents. Lying in wait just outside of the apartment, I managed to ambush him and knock him unconscious before he gave the same treatment to me. I took his fingerprints and made note of the gun on his person, then returned to the brand new crime scene.

Searching the apartment for clues, I found the envelope with the documents that I was supposed to retrieve. Not only had I personally witnessed one of the murders, the victim was the target of a job that I was there to undertake.

This is just how the game flows - controlled chaos in real time. The residents of your dystopian burg kill each other with gusto, and there's a real chance of you interrupting a homicide or some other crime just because you were in the right place at the wrong time. And while that chaos can make things a bit sloppy at times, it pretty much guarantees that you're going to see something memorable if you just keep playing.

So I get a call about a murder. Finish my coffee and Donuts at Shauna's (best place to eat in Great Forks). Head over straight away, beat the enforcers to the crime scene.

It's a small apartment, the vic is lying in a corner, smal caliber bullet holes in her, maybe 8mm. I check the place for prints, sure enough I find hers. And then I spot the other print. Easy case, I think... Then I spot this second print on the sofa. The kettle. The phone... Either I've found the handsiest killer in the Forks or there's two people living here.

Sure enough, a quick search of the premises tells me there is, or was, two people living here. I check the phone, nobody's called the place recently. I find the name of the partner, and their work, some office job in another building. Getting in's not a problem, and a quick glance at the employee Photos takes me to the owner of those prints.

"Have you seen this girl?" I ask, showing her the vic's ID. Tells me she's their partner, and how she loves DIY. Won't give me anything more than that. I don't know how to break the news to her, so off to check the vic's employment. Turns out she worked in the local pawn shop. I duck into the back room, check the computer, check the employee files, looking for... I don't know what. Something. Anything. Another name? Nothing. Just spam emails and an average performance review.

I know I went over that house with a fine tooth comb, but I've got no leads. Nothing. No shell casings, no prints except the vic and her partner. No murder weapon. So I go back out into the rain, and ride the elevator up to that crime scene and bring out an even finer tooth comb.

Eventually I spot it. A ball of paper that had nearly fallen behind the curtains. It says "Let's play" and 4 letters. DNOW. I don't know how I missed it, but the killer's been taunting me from the start. But "DNOW"? What did that even mean? Then it struck me. It was an anagram. Of what? I stood their racking my brain for longer than I should. Dnow? Do NW? Then it hit me. It was the spouse's name... D. Won. And then I realise that I'm back to the same two sets of prints. Back to square one.

I made another search of the place, all matchbooks (that no helpful soul had written a number in) and strange books. Still nothing. Then I hear it. The key in the door. My blood ran cold. How long had I been here? I glanced at my watch. Quarter after 5. This is D Won coming home from work, and none too pleased to find a private detective in her front room, stood next to her dead girlfriend.

I expected screams, her to come at me swinging like so many have done. The dame didn't hesitate. Pulled out a revolver and started trying to fill me with lead. I'm not proud of what I did, but she had the gun, and I didn't. A couple of swift punches and she fell to the floor.

I search her. Revolver. 8mm. Box of ammo... My damn murder weapon. I didn't even have the cuffs on me so had to hot foot it to city hall while stuffing bandages into the bullet holes to get back before she woke up.

When I handed in the forms, there was still a nagging doubt. Had I missed something after all? But no. She had the weapon. Nobody else had been in the room. Fingerprints put her at the scene, of course.

As I collected my full pay and headed back to Shauna's, I thought to myself... First damn rule of the job. The partner's always the first suspect.

I broke into a mans home, figured out his entire life, work route, emails, phone numbers, everything. I even figured out everything about his partner only for it to be the wrong guy because he had a T in his name. 10/10

Мне невероятно понравилась эта игра. Но сейчас очень много багов- утечка оперативной памяти, нагружает видеокарту на 100%, что даже читание газеты вызывает сильные зависания. Поломка текстур шумами. Низкая оптимизация. А также: Если ты сохранишься под кроватью, тебя загрузит этажом ниже. Если в вентиляции есть решетка, то она вытолкнет тебя за текстуры. Фтографии места с чемоданами часто может быть где-то в текстурах. Жители часто могут зацикливаться на одном действии и ничего не делать.
И еще больше.

Я искренне желаю успеха этой игре, потомучто эта игра дает уникальный опыт, который я очень давно ждал. Если её доделают, она станет легендой.

玩极难难度的沙盒模式遇到的第一个凶杀案,现场除了一个指纹,一个7码的鞋印,一个7个英文字母的字谜纸条,还有墙上的XX已偿还就没有任何线索了,先是在字谜上花了很大功夫,认为是每个字母对应一个数字,然后组成7位电话号码,结果死活解不开,放弃这条线索.然后就是7码鞋印和从邻居口中得知的凶手有胡子的线索,调取了公寓楼和附近街道所有的监控,结果找不到一个符合这两个条件的人,基本放弃这条线索.然后从作案动机开始查,电脑邮件没有任何信息,电话记录也没有任何线索,只能把目光聚集到墙上已偿还的血字上了,查到被害人银行账单入不敷出,存在很大的财务问题,是不是欠钱被杀?查房东,查伴侣,指纹全对不上,放弃,然后查高利贷公司,员工指纹也对不上,查赌场老板,还是对不上,已经快绝望了,但是最大嫌疑还是在高利贷公司的职业催债人身上,怀疑他是不是雇佣了杀手,查他邮件,发现曾经在一个餐饮订过餐,怀疑是跟杀手碰头,去查餐厅监控,时间过了太久,没有当天监控了,于是基本放弃,在催债人身上放了血液追踪器,看他有没有异常行踪,然后去接一些悬赏赚钱买了房子,凑全了模组,很多天过去了,想起这个案子还没破,顺便看了眼追债人的行踪,发现他竟然不在上班的地方也不在家,于是开始跟踪,发现他到了地下赌场,不知道他是发现我了还是怎么的,突然转身就开始跑,我赶忙追上去,然后追丢了,看了下地图标记,他就在高利贷公司所在的负一楼,但是找不到人,于是我开始把负一楼所有房子搜一遍,意外发现了一个地下军火商,当我翻找军火公司职员资料的时候,没想到那个熟悉又陌生的B指纹出现了,原来如此,军火商还兼职做职业杀手,很合理,最后人赃并获了,最后我看了眼当初凶手留下的那个字谜,才发现7个字母是凶手的名字第一个字母和姓的6个字母打乱顺序排出来的,这谁想的到,不过还是挺精彩的.凶手家房子挺大挺豪华的,看来卖军火很赚钱,之前也搜过一个清洁工的家,住在负一楼贫民窟,家徒四壁,连电话都没有,保险箱只锁着27块钱,还被我偷了,想想真是现实,这个城市里还有很多现实的故事没被发掘,职场争斗,婚外情,掩盖药物副作用的企业,毁灭证据,杀人灭口,后来,我赚够了钱,搬进了那个职业杀手的豪宅.

Накидался в первом же баре, покопался до прохожего, который вел себя подозрительно, отмудохал его. Узнал где он живет, пришел по адресу, открыл квартиру его ключами и принялся уничтожать все его запасы алкоголя. В полном невменозе был встречен владельцем квартиры. Это была его ошибка, ведь следом в него полетела бутылка его же водки. Свалил в вентиляцию, попукивая и кряхтя. Перепутал этажи и вышел с пятого. Со сломанными ногами и в отключке меня отвезли в клинику, где я отказался оплачивать услуги врача за что был повторно оп*здюлен.

Говорят тут еще можно какие-то дела разгадывать.
10 из 10

TFW you solve your first murder case

Monday night. 18:45. A woman is murdered and her partner none the wiser. Police inspect the scene, find nothing. I wait for my turn. Searching the apartment I find the body. Poor woman was shot dead. Murder weapon is a handgun or revolver judging by the bullet hole. Find a handgun in the apartment, belongs to the woman. She was an enforcer. Bastard must be real tough. I grab all the money I can find and a few heirlooms to sell. Guy's gotta eat.

Tuesday morning. 02:00. I search the enforcer office where they work. Colleagues don't match the description. Short, black hair. Boot size 16. No leads here.

Tuesday morning. 11:00. Pawn shop finally opens. I sell the heirlooms and make my way to City Hall. Buy some equipment. Time to revisit the crime scene.

Tuesday afternoon. 13:00. Back at the crime scene. Notice a crumpled up bit of paper with a decipher on it. Killer's calling card. What does it mean?

Tuesday evening. 18:00. After interviewing the general public, I decide to take a look at the surveillance cameras. As I walk inside, another murder is committed in the building. I rush to the scene. There's a few people here already. One of them must be the killer. Enforcers arrive pretty quickly and cordon off the area. I wait my turn.

Tuesday evening. 19:00. Managed to sneak into the apartment. Another woman is dead. Place is filthy. Someone definitely ransacked the place. I take out my scanner and begin looking for fingerprints. Wait, what's this? A fingerprint that doesn't belong to someone who lives here. Belongs to Chidike Kabbah. He was outside when I got here. I search the address book, he lives on the top floor. Time to pay him a visit.

Tuesday evening. 21:00. I break into his apartment. Sneak my way into the bedroom. Find his gun in one of the drawers. It matches the murder weapon. Chidike arrives home. I pick up the gun and use it to beat him unconscious. Time to handcuff him and ask him a few questions. He admits to the murder with a smug "took you long enough" then starts shouting about a cult. Sick bastard. How many more would have died if I didn't stop him?

Tuesday night. 23:00. I turn in the case. Chidike is arrested. One less scumbag to worry about.

Tuesday night. 23:30. Head to the nearest bar. Drink a few harsh ones. This job doesn't get any easier.

A man had been killed on Ku Street. After clumsily rifling through the victim's wallet right in front of the cops and getting my ass shot off in the process, I dragged my bleeding-out self to City Hall. There are government databases I can tap into there to get information on the cadaver. My vision is greying and I'm getting blood everywhere I go but I soldier on to an upstairs office I could slip into and find a cruncher (that's what they call computers in this setting) that I found the login codes for posted on an employee cork board in the same room.

First order of business? Turn off the security in the building. Unfortunately for me, the I had either too many hard ciders or the blood-loss was making me loopy, because rather than turn the security cameras and turrets off, I simply changed their targeting protocol to "Not Player." There, I laughed, I was safe and free to pilfer all the government-mandated data I could ever need.

What proceeded to occur was likely the greatest massacre the city had ever seen. The security cameras now saw every single target in the building that wasn't me as an enemy, and the turrets activated all over the building. Gunfire went off everywhere, alarms were blaring, and since I didn't know what was going on I tried to hide myself around side the desk until it was over. The alarms never stopped, but the gunfire eventually did.

I dragged my bleeding ass down to the lobby to beat feet and get the hell out of that nightmare. Bodies were strewn around the lobby, everyone was dead. I watched as an employee entered the doors to begin their shift and promptly get turned into swiss cheese by the security turrets the second she stepped inside. Realizing my mistake, I left City Hall, I closed the case immediately, and went into a profession more suited for my now obvious talents: breaking other people's stuff for money.

11/10, would accidentally commit stupid again.

A man has been murdered in Lego City.

Esse jogo tem um potencial ABSURDO, mas infelizmente não está lá ainda. A cidade é incrível, o jogo é lindo e ter um mundo aberto que você pode investigar cada uma das pessoas de uma cidade livremente no seu próprio estilo e curiosidade é genial, mas infelizmente os CASOS que você precisa investigar são extremamente básicos, rasos e na maior parte sem grandes conexões lógicas. Você não sente que está realmente desvendando um mistério como um detetive, só está andando pra lá e pra cá torcendo pra achar logo a pessoa relacionada que deixou a digital na cena do crime.

Ah, e o jogo tem bugs. MUITOS bugs, que constantemente quebram o seu jogo e o forçam a ter que dar load.

Eu me esforcei MUITO pra gostar desse jogo, e no fim ainda acho que foi uma experiência positiva, mas espero que os desenvolvedores parem de se apoiar só nas missões genéricas geradas proceduralmente e criem NPCs mais complexos, com tramas reais a serem descobertas entre eles e com assassinatos escritos à mão por um humano mesmo.

Sinto que voltarei a jogar Shadows of Doubt daqui a um ano pra ver se as atualizações deixarão o jogo divertido e interessante.

got a new case, tried to break into an apartment to investigate suspect. Tried to get in through a vent, npc saw me climbing in. Knocked them out. Went into wrong apartment, got into a fistfight with 2 other npc's. One of them pulled a gun so I grabbed a knife, threw it through a window to break it open, jumped through window and fell onto the street 8 floors below. Woke up in a hospital. Tried to escape without paying, got lit up by a security camera with a machine gun attached. Died, woke up in same bed now covered in blood. Paid my bill this time. 10/10, only spent 6 hours going after the wrong suspect

I have no idea what I'm doing but I already handcuffed some rando jabroni after picking the lock to his apartment, took a bunch of fingerprints and then asked him if he had any spare change. He said no so I uncuffed him then went and bought a beer. The detective life is sweet as hell.

I feel my standard practice of kicking in the door of every crime scene, beating the stationed cops unconscious, handcuffing their bodies, investigating then turning the entire crime scene over for valuables to pawn at the local pawnshop might make me a morally dubious detective, but I get pretty good results about 75% of the time and that bought me a 17th floor penthouse that was atleast partially funded by legitimate means and that's a win for everyone.

Get to first real mystery post tutorial, pick up a murder on the scanner, a bloody massacre with odd symbols and a note hidden in a corner. The note is a hangman-esque puzzle with the letters t s a & n. Little to no evidence other than that left at the crime scene. I instead decide to use the address book of the victim to go speak to friends and acquaintances of the deceased. They keep mentioning a "blonde women with long hair" looking suspicious. After endless dead-ends i pack it in for the day. Wake up to another murder, another note, find an odd set of finger prints at the crime scene this time that dont match any of the tenants. Finally a breakthrough, if a small one. After more investigating and dead ends ( and a short trip to the hospital for a broken leg after an accidental 6 story fall) i pack it in again. Another short slumber, another body greats me upon awakening, another note. But this time, an odd man greats me at the scene of the crime, not an enforcer but a regular civilian. This is immediately suspicious, and his willingness to be cooperative furthers said suspician. He gives me his prints and name even. But i have no proof, nothing to link him to the scene of the murder...except...except the notes, i hurriedly go back and scan the previous 3 notes for finger prints, they not only match the ones i found at the scene yesterday, but also those of the man who i caught walking out of the scene earlier. i quickly find his address, eager to break into his apartment to find more evidence. I'm close now, so close i can feel it. Much to my dismay, upon arriving at the killers address, i come to find that this killer sh!ts where he eats. He killed his hallway neighbor and as a result an enforcer sits there, squashing all my hopes of breaking into the killers apartment. I wait for hours, the enforcer doesnt move, i try nearby vents to see if i can get in through some back entrance, no luck, i even take out the lights to attempt to pick the lock in the dark hoping the enforcer doesnt notice... he does. On the verge of giving up, i try to think of any way that i havent tried to get in, when, in walks the killer, he saunters right by me without a care in the world and opens his apartment door. It was as if the gates of heaven themselves had swung open before me, without thinking i followed him into the apartment, thinking i would simply confront him before he had a chance to retaliate. As the door closed behind me, the killer became immediately aware of my presence. He began to open fire upon me just as the door clicked shut. Having no weapon on me, i proceeded to beat him unconscious with my fists, bullets whizzing past as blow after blow landed upon him. One round grazed my arm and i caught another in the leg, which shattered it upon impact. But as the dust settled i found myself standing above his unconscious body, the murder weapon, of which i had nearly become another victim, sitting in his limp hand. I retrieved it shakily, and hobbled my way to city hall, slapping the blood speckled form into the receptacle, and breathing a sigh of relief upon its acceptance. After a brief stay at the local infirmary, my scanner detected another murder. Another chase, another dead body, another day closer to retirement, but how much of me, if any at all, would be left by the end?

Steam needs more living world games like this.

You get to be a detective that solves crimes by committing crimes.

The first hours of the game are fantastic. When you don't know how the systems work and interact, there's a joy in discovery, and you even sometimes feel clever for figuring something out with an obscure clue you were given.
But eventually that novelty wears off, as the limit of the procedural generation reaches its limit on unique scenarios to give you, and suddenly it becomes a routine.

There's a few hours where the world is cozy enough you want to linger, and so you grind through the routine of taking your evidence, and figuring out what you need, but you no longer feel clever, as there is no more discoveries to be made, no unique scenarios that cause you to put your thinking cap on.

Unfortunately, the game has an end, and the grind it took to get there was a little more than I enjoyed. The final stretch felt like a chore and I almost walked away without completion. Which, after having reached the end, was not worth the push.

I do recommend for those first hours alone. It was a solid 12 hours of wonder, 6 hours of comfy routine, and 4 hours of agonizing chore.

Gosh. The game does not hold your hand, because it cannot hold your hand; it's too big of a world. In the tutorial mission I found myself conducting industrial espionage on a five star hotel and becoming a diamond thief - completely on accident - and now I have to find a fence to sell my stolen goods. I also know that the average Head Chef at a five star hotel makes 42000 crows in a year and my little B&E racked up fines worth over 26000cr, and once I find somewhere to sell these diamonds, I will know how many diamonds a Chef is worth in this world. I still have no idea who killed my vic, and that has, sadly, taken a backseat to playing 4k Minecraft Payday.

11/10 game. Maybe more. It's Deus Ex: Roblox Revolution Noir. The only problem with this game is that it will make you choose between a comfy warm mug of tea and a Holmes experience, or three fingers of Jack and being like real life Humphrey Bogart.

Got a request to trash up someone’s apartment. Carry a garbage can up six flights of stairs. Knock on the poor sap’s apartment door. He answers. I throw the garbage can at him and he’s knocked out.

Proceed to trash up the place. Guy wakes up. I throw the garbage can at him again and leave. Realize that I needed to take a picture as proof that the job was completed. Go back, throw around more garbage and take a photo. Guy wakes up and this time I decide to beat him with a chair and then leave.

I realize I forgot to actually save the picture. I walk back up and proceed to do the same thing over again. Take a photo, save it this time, knock the guy out with a garbage can, and then finish the job. Easy money

Oh and this game is pretty fun too.

Resolví un crimen matando a exactamente 14 inocentes, un precio justo.
Juegazo

I broke into a random guys apartment and smashed a jar of snacks over his head, knocking him out since I thought he was the killer

He was not
He then got up, and promptly shot me until I passed out and woke up in the hospital, which I then tried to escape to avoid paying the medical bills in which I was then shot again by the receptionist on my way out

The most authentic and immersive detective sim I've ever played 10/10

I walked out of my apartment and said hello to my neighbor. They told me to buzz off and mind my own business.

So instead, I followed him to work, waited until after hours, broke into their place of business, found my way into into their employee database, business ledgers, and a few other places while I was at it.

To my dear neighbor, Eli,

How about saying "Good morning" next time, Eli Johnson, the store manager that works at the Jade Cafe down the block? Whose pass code for everything is 2371 and who had a pristine, commemorative baseball locked in his home safe. A man who just the other week got a match from a dating app with a Wendy Pierce.

You remember Wendy, Right? The sweet, well-off, red head accountant who works at Crimson Associates? The one you've been sending those unrequited steamy emails to? You'd probably love to know she just so happened to visit the cafe yesterday and had a fun chat with your coworker, Chadwick Fresco, around 12:42 when she bought a burger and some fries. Guess you were hanging out in the backroom that day staring at that cool baseball of yours.

I doubt she'd ever want to talk to you, since I saw her and Chadwick together at her apartment at 401 Gonzales Street today at 18:37. I bet he let her know that you were a rude, boring, crappy manager, and a pain-killer guzzling, asthmatic, smoker who has no personality outside of his favorite sports team. It must suck to be a lonely, fat, ugly-ass, nobody who's about to land himself on the streets cause he has no marketable skills and his dead end job doesn't even pay enough to keep up with the rent.

I see you, Eli, I see you.

Первое убийство было совершено вечером в общественном туалете мэрии. Мужчина, 5 пулевых ранений, 5 гильз 8 мм, кровь на стенах. Казалось, что такое безрассудное убийство будет раскрыть легче всего, но в тот же момент не было почти никаких улик. Камеры мэрии показали десяток людей, ошивающихся рядом с туалетом в момент предполагаемого убийства, работники сообщили о подозрительном человеке среднего роста. Было бессмысленно искать отпечатки в общественном туалете, но всё же кое что у меня было. Маленькая игрушечная машинка с отпечатками пальцев неизвестного, лежащая рядом с трупом, посреди кафеля в туалете. Отпечатки, средний рост и предположительно полуавтоматический пистолет 8 мм калибра, вот и всё, что я имел. Я нашел и опросил всех людей среднего роста, которых видел на записях камер, но ни один из них не имел отпечатков, оставленных на игрушке. Расследование зашло в тупик, я вернулся домой и лег спать. Следующий день был так же не прост, я решил отправиться на местный черный рынок, там, назвав пароль, я получил список покупателей оружия за последние несколько недель. Я выделил всех, кто покупал патроны 8 мм, глушители для пистолетов и само оружие 8 мм. Пистолет покупал только один человек, с него я и начал. Быстро вычислив адрес, я прибыл в квартиру подозреваемого, но отпечатки вновь не совпали, да и рост тоже. Остальные также не подходили под улики. Расследование зашло в тупик, но утром было совершено второе убийство. На месте всё было так же, пулевые ранения, гильзы 8 мм и игрушечная машинка, с совпадающими отпечатками. Сомнений быть не могло, это тот же убийца и отпечатки на машинке приведут меня к нему. Соседи так же сообщили о человеке среднего роста, на камерах в этот раз было совсем мало людей, а в момент убийства они и вовсе никого не зафиксировали. Я прошелся по офисам местных фирм в этом здании и ознакомился с личными делами сотрудников, но нужные отпечатки так и не нашел. Я вновь был в тупике. Среднего роста черт возьми, таких в городе сотни, а у меня не осталось ни одной нити. Ночью следующего дня было совершено новое убийство. Маньяк вошел во вкус и я знал, что скоро он ошибется. На месте преступления всё вновь повторилось, вновь гребаная красная машинка. Он игрался со мной, но я чувствовал, что близок к раскрытию этого дела. На этот раз мне наконец повезло, камера перед квартирой жертвы зафиксировала ровно одного человека, уходящего от двери квартиры во время предполагаемого убийства. Мужчина, среднего роста. Беглый опрос жителей указал на то, что его видели в другом жилом здании. Я помчался туда, постучался в первую же квартиру и мне вновь повезло. Я получил имя подозреваемого, более того, он жил в этом самом доме. В адресной книге я нашел его квартиру, но внутри неё никого не оказалось. Проведя осмотр я узнал, что жилец тут только один и одни отпечатки. Отпечатки, совпадающие с отпечатками на машинках, которые оставлял убийца. Выйдя на улицу и закурив я осознал, что дом напротив, это дом в котором я живу, мои окна буквально были напротив окон убийцы. В моих жилах стала закипать кровь, всё это время ублюдок спал, жрал и срал прямо у меня под носом, в то время как я допрашивал бомжей на улицах города. Я поднялся к себе домой, заварил кофе, сел у окна и стал ждать. Вечером я увидел, как похожий на человека с записи видеокамеры мужчина зашел в нужный мне подъезд. Я живо собрал вещи и пошел за ним. Я постучался в дверь убийцы, он был дома. Дверь мне открыл пухлый, помятый мужчина, среднего роста, в синей рубашке поло. Я представился детективом и допросил его, заодно снял отпечатки пальцев. Это был он. Я поблагодарил его за уделённое время и развернулся, чтобы уйти. В тот момент, когда за мной закрылась дверь, я разбежался и вынес её с ноги. Ублюдок упал не землю, где я быстро надел на него наручники. На кухне нашелся пистолет с глушителем калибра 8 мм. Вызвав наряд полиции я пошел в мэрию. Там я быстро заполнил дело и поставил жирную точку в этой истории.

i don't even really like this game but how the ♥♥♥♥ did starfield get most innovative gameplay over this

Адепты Максоуни на месте!

I broke into a apartment and assaulted a couple. it was the wrong adress

I never investigate murders. I just break into homes and steal money.

Because I can. I love freedom.

playing this game with Death Note OST on in the background makes me feel smart (im not)

Resumen:

Empieza la partida, veo a un tío ♥♥♥ un martillo entrar a una casa. Decido seguirlo, cuando entro estoy en el rellano lo veo salir así que lo reviento a puñetazos y le saco las muelas. Entro a la casa a buscar el cadáver y no hay nada. El tío había entrado a dejar algo. Me voy. 10/10.

The enforcers don’t want you to know this but the diamonds in the safes are free you can take them home I have pawned 458 diamonds

Spent 5 hours pursuing leads on a serial killer by robbing an entire apartment block while checking for fingerprints. 4 murders later I realized the serial killer's calling card was slowly spelling out their name with bloody notes. I then broke into their workplace to beat the crap out of them with a baton in front of all of their coworkers.
10/10

Shadows of Doubt is surprisingly good. I was skeptical of the premise, but after watching LGIO's video I had to pick it up. Now I'm behind on work and I blame all y'all

The randomly generated nature of the game is just too intriguing. It does mean that weird stuff can happen, and sometimes a job just can't be figured out - for instance, if the target you are supposed to steal from gets killed by the murderer :O - but that's just how it works out. I wish my computer was beefy enough to play on a very large map

It's also important to remember that, except for the tutorial, there isn't a planned out clever solution to every case. Sometimes you just have to put in the legwork - spending (in game) hours finding and going through workplace and residency documents, then referencing government records for each individual one-by-one, just so you can try to find somebody with the right shoe size who MIGHT be the killer. In this sense, I feel like this game represents what it's like to actually be a detective than any other experience out there

This game does leak memory worse than any game I have seen in this decade, though, so occasional restarts are currently required for the best experience

¡¡¡Este juego es una maldita locura!!!

Empecé sin tener ni idea de nada recibiendo palizas por todas partes. Las cámaras me troleaban, todo el mundo tenía armas y cualquiera me reventaba. Me tocó un caso bastante curioso. Empecé este juego recibiendo una nota que me pedía que encontrase a cierta persona, esa persona era Roxane. Cuando fui a buscarla la encontré muerta. Estuve mirando por cada rincón en busca de pistas y encontré unas huellas que no pertenecían a ella de tipo B. Me tiré bastante rato intentando encontrar pistas por su zona de trabajo lo que pasa que no paraban de meterme balazos los empleados y también algún guardia, lo que me dificultaba la investigación (también era mi primer día y era un noob xd). Total, que me terminé agotando y me fui a descansar in real life.

Cuando volví al juego terminé consiguiendo investigando la contraseña de Roxane y me fui a su ordenador del trabajo a ver si tenía algo de información relevante. Su amiga (no me acuerdo del nombre) le había escrito recientemente sobre que tuviese cuidado ♥♥♥ un tal "Ty". Yo ahí me espabilé un poquito ya que coño, por fin una pista de valor!!

Fui a visitar a la amiga de Roxane, la que le había advertido de cierta persona, pillando su dirección del domicilio de un libro donde en principio salen todas las personas de la ciudad y su vivienda. Al llegar a la entrada descubro que la puerta está abierta y está vallada ♥♥♥ cinta amarilla y negra. Me cuelo a su casa y me encuentro a la amiga también muerta. Le habían disparada ♥♥♥ un arma de fuego al igual que a Roxane!
Después de ojear por su casa pistas, me fui a su lugar de trabajo que era el mismo que el de Roxane y me ♥♥♥♥ a investigar en su ordenador. Se ve que Roxane y la amiga trabajaban en el mismo sitio. Entre todas los mensajes que había de la amiga de Roxane, vi un mensaje donde salía el nombre de un amigo de la amiga de Roxane. Busqué a esa persona en el libro público de la city y su dirección. Luego me presenté en su casa y le hice unas cuantas interrogaciones además de esposarle y tomarle la huella dactilar. Se puso muy cabezón ♥♥♥ que no quería cooperar y no tuve más remedio que esposarle... Resultó que no tenía nada que ver ♥♥♥ el asesino, o esa fue mi impresión.

Después fui en busca del principal sospechoso, el llamado "Ty" del cual la amiga de Roxane le había advertido a ella. Para ello me fui a la casa de la amiga de Roxane y busqué en su libro de contactos para ver si estaba esa tal persona ya que si sabía ese nombre estaría en sus contactos, no sé... (en el libro donde se encuentra toda la gente de la city no lo encontré :/ )

Una vez habiendo conseguido la dirección del tal "Ty" que tenía en su librito la amiga de Roxane (lo siento amiga, pero que te hubiesen puesto un nombre más reconocible ._.), fui para allá, le interrogué, le esposé, le escaneé... Le hizo de todo pero sin resultados, sin ninguna pista sobre el asesino. Mi principal sospechoso era inocente. Ese Ty era inocente 0_0 Por cierto, el tal "Ty" que tenía en contactos la amiga de Roxane se ve que tenía muchas visitillas por su casa porque su puerta estaba llena de un montón de tipos de huellas, no veas... Jaja.

Bueno, yo en ese momento ya llevaba un tiempo en la city investigando, y al descubrir que Ty no tenía nada que ver en todo este misterio se me cayó el mundo encima y me planteé dejar el caso para otro día.

Ahora es cuando se viene la parte suculenta... Quiero informar antes de nada que en ese momento yo estaba en llamada de Discord ♥♥♥ un amigo.

Cuando lo iba a dejar pensando que no tenía ya más lugares donde mirar, me dice mi amigo que si había visto en el historial de llamadas de alguna de las personas fallecidas a ver si había algo interesante. Fui a la casa de Roxane, me colé obviamente, descubrimos cuál fue la última llamada, pillé el número y lo marqué. A la llamada me respondió una tal Rachel. Nada más me dijo el nombre y apellido la colgué jajaja. Después busqué a Rachel en el libro este majestuoso que comparten todos los ciudadanos de la city y marqué su dirección. Quería saber por qué narices esta persona había llamado a Roxane poco tiempo antes de su muerte.

Me terminé presentando en frente de su casa y llamé a la puerta. Me recibió Rachel ♥♥♥ una sonrisa de oreja a oreja y me estuvo respondiendo a todo lo que le preguntaba, incluso me dejó hacerle una prueba de tipo de huella (dio negativo, no era B). Al parecer Rachel también era compañera de trabajo de Roxane y su amiga. Le di las gracias por su amabilidad y me despedí. ¡¡O eso creía ella!! Cuando cerró la puerta, a los pocos segundos saqué el aparato para escanear y lo ♥♥♥♥ en el pomo de la puerta. Yo y mi amigo nos quedamos mudos. ¡Había salido huella de tipo B! ¡La única vez en todo el tiempo que llevaba investigando que me la encuentro! Ahora había un problema, si Rachel no era la asesina ya que tenía otro tipo de huella, ¿quién ♥♥♥ esa huella se había metido en su casa?

Al haber cámaras por todos los sitios, busqué por el edificio a ver si había un cuartito de vigilancia para poder ver las grabaciones pasadas de la cámara de al lado de su puerta, pero sin resultados.

Al final tomé la vía de los conductos de ventilación para poder colarme en la casa de Rachel y ver si ahí encontraba algo más relacionado sobre el asesino.

Reptando por ahí terminé llegando al baño de una casa de la cual yo creía que era la de Rachel, pero vi a otra persona, entonces me rayé muchísimo y di media vuelta. Quizás me había confundido de conducto, pero al intentar llegar de nuevo, terminé volviendo al mismo lugar. En ese momento no había nadie en mi campo de visión, pero estaba muy desconcertado. Aún así, bajé del conducto y terminé colándome en la casa.

Nada más bajar me vino una chavala de la nada que desconocía totalmente a darme de hostias. En uno de los golpes que me intentó dar se cargó el espejo del baño. Durante el forcejeo terminé consiguiendo ponerle unas esposas y neutralizarla. Después la interrogué aunque sin éxito de respuesta, por lo que pasé a hacerle un escáner de uno de sus dedos... Había dado tipo B, la adrenalina empezó a recorrer cada parte de mi cuerpo. Aún no sabía su nombre, casi nada, necesitaba explorar la casa en busca de más pistas que la incriminasen de ser la asesina. Salí del baño y abrí la puerta de un cuarto que estaba a oscuras por lo que encendí la luz. En ese cuarto se encontraba Rachel durmiendo 0_0, lo que la luz la despertó y vino a darme una paliza como una psicópata. Yo ahí no entendía nada. ¡¿Es que me encontraba en una casa de malditos locos de mente?!

Rachel me vino a puños de repente y de la sorpresa no saqué un arma mejor, por lo que también fui a pelo. Rachel estuvo a punto de tumbarme, pensé que quizás no salía vivo de ahí, pero conseguí explicarle quién mandaba y la terminé noqueando. Ahora si que podía tener más tiempo para explorar la casa ♥♥♥ tranquilidad, no habían más personas xd. Entre todas las cosas que había encontré el dni de la persona que había esposado al principio en el baño. Se llamaba "Ty".

Yo en ese momento me volví loco, salí corriendo de esa casa, me fui a un bar y reporté a la asesina de todos estos crímenes a las autoridades. FIN

Vaya locura de misterio chaval, increíble juego, lo recomiendo.

Saludos

Ultimately, I think the issue is that it feels kind of flat.

My first encounter was really great, because I'd been tasked to investigate the murder of a woman. I started by breaking into her workplace and logging onto her boss's computer - a few days back, the victim had sent an email to her boss begging him not to fire her. This being a seemingly dead end, I move to break into the victim's apartment next: she lives there with her partner, another woman. But if the household belongs to a gay couple, then why are there birth control pills sitting in the bedroom? Oh. OH. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, she's sleeping with her boss to keep her job. And her partner found out, killed her in a blind fit of rage with the kitchen knife, and then fled the scene.

But the issue is that was all just a coincidence. Most of the game isn't like that. You don't really get to figure out the killer's motives, or talk to a wide cast of interesting characters. You just scan the murder weapon for fingerprints, and then go talking to the victim's associates until you find a pair of prints that match.

And figuring out whodunnit has never been the fun of noir so much as whydunnit, and the whydunnit doesn't exist, because these are all procedurally generated. And so you ultimately get around to figuring out the suspect, nailing him down to the ground, and just feeling this hollow sense of victory because none of it feels immersive or real - the antagonist hardly even feels human so much as he feels like a pile of pixels.

The game oozes artistic beauty and genre-authentic moodiness - which lasts so long as you're roleplaying. But soon enough you'll find the game encouraging you to break the mold of 'hardboiled detective' and shift into something more akin to 'futuristic murderhobo'. There's a serious sense of ludonarrative dissonance in both tracking down murderers and going from door to door with a chef's knife, stabbing every resident in the throat, and plundering their apartment blocks for loot so that you can afford to buy augmentations. Suddenly, the immersion is broken - because it makes no logical sense that you're killing twice as many innocent people as you are avenging - and then the charm really wears off.

What I feel this game needs more than anything is to focus on its primary gameplay loop: there should be more to it than just spamming the fingerprint scanner everywhere. There should be logical deduction, conversation, motives, conspiracy, conspirators, characters and personalities and most importantly, interpersonal conflict, because as the game is right now, the main thing that you're doing in the game - the actual murder solving - feels a puddle wide and an inch deep.

The game might not be in a perfect state right now, but I do think that it has potential if given enough time and if attention is put into the right areas. I look forward to seeing where this game ends up going in the long-term, and what the final product looks like once it exits early access.

Мне понравилось, с вагоном разных "но". Впечатления очень смешанные. Негативный отзыв в противовес большинству положительных - некоторые "но" показались мне очень весомыми, до крайне положительных отзывов тут еще много работы.

Что понравилось:
- Концепт восхитительный
- Интересный антураж, бродить по улочкам и квартирам приятно, глаза не болят (в большинстве случаев), может способствовать погружению.
- Механика расследования. Чувствуется принцип "свободы расследования", игра не играет сама в себя, ставя галочки по триггерам. Она устраивает сценку и запускает в эту сценку тебя, а дальше уже сам ищи что найдешь и иди куда хочешь. Намеки и связи есть - найди.
- Концепция и механика действий нпс. В прииинципе, мир не совсем статичен, и цель расследования продолжает чем-то заниматься (а не сидит в точке Б, ожидая захвата вами), картина преступления размывается со временем, данные затираются и лучше не медлить.
- Интерактивная доска улик. Погружательно. Особенно когда к концу дела смотришь, сколько всякой инфы накопал про всех причастных.
- Приятные мелочи и механики, вроде как случайные. Перебои с электричеством, компьютеры, что не выключили в конце рабочего дня и подобное. Добавляет разнообразия.
- Антуражные мелочи. Как игрок смотрит на часы, как бежит под дождем до мэрии, попивая кофеек.

Ряд особенностей игры неплохи в концепции и не то чтобы не понравились, но и в плюсы не записать. Есть генерация и есть, есть малюсенький лор и есть.

А вот теперь о том, над чем, имхо, работать и работать, чтобы игра не закончилась как интересный концепт:
- Производительность. Кадров мало. 60 +-30 на моей средней системе. Просадки были даже у стримеров с дорогими системами. Тем печальнее, что местами в игре хорошо бы действовать точно и быстро, и здесь пригодился бы максимум кадров, к которому привык игрок.
- Баги. Есть мелкие, вроде инвентированных номеров на дверях, есть ощутимые (сидел на скамейке, встал - кинуло за стену в чью-то квартиру; однажды было задание с по сути двумя подозреваемыми и наводкой на первую букву имени, с первым из них я не смог заговорить вообще; масштабирование карты и интерактивной доски у меня работало в первые пять минут игры, больше я этих функций добиться не смог). Видимо, даже имеющиеся наработки ещё полировать и полировать.
- Мало, скудно, недоработано. Эти три наречия подставляем к любой детали игры, особенно к тому, что понравилось выше в обзоре. Я прилагаю усилия чтобы не писать конкретных примеров, т.к. есть впечатление, что если я упомяну какую-то фишку, других в игре вы не найдете и я украду ваш "вау" эффект от ознакомления.

Резюме.
Для меня игра отработала 7 часов, и очень может быть еще столько же отработает, настолько свеж игровой процесс. Но будьте готовы, что в процессе тут и там в глаза будут бросаться "но", многое игре придется прощать, а хватит этой игры условно на разовое ознакомление.

Подробности о том, что мне хотелось бы видеть в игре, чисто пожаловаться, желающим поиграть я сюда смотреть не советую:

- Антуражные мелочи - мало. Сигаретку покурить, покачать головой, смотря на то как сотрудники полиции игнорируют драку двух бездомных. Мир не прогнил, он мертв через пару другую часов шатания по городишке.
- Дела - куцо. Паттерн преступлений читается, мало влияющих особенностей. Пара другая дел и вы точно будете понимать, что вы сделаете, чтобы раскрыть новое дело, пусть действующие лица и места поменяются. Для реиграбельности список возможных дел надо значительно расширять, делать их непохожими друг на друга.
- Случайные происшествия - мало. Спрятавшийся в шкафу преступник, внезапная эвакуация здания, опг, кроты в полиции. Нужно больше всего того (и разного), что будет ставить под угрозу расследование, мешать игроку. В целом хочется больше рисков, осознания, что у меня может не получиться запылесосить все сведения о семье и всех тех, с кем они хоть раз общались. Есть жажда делать ставки на принимаемые решения - отправиться в точку Б или В? Осмотреть компьютер или сейф? Вести дело открыто или скрываться, чтобы не спугнуть? Этого очень не хватает.
- NPC. Наверное одна из самых куцых механик. Им нужны характеры, они должны по разному реагировать на мир вокруг - на то, как и о чем вы с ним говорите, как громко стучите в дверь, как часто ошиваетесь около его дома. Родственник убиенного? Наверное, ты захочешь помочь расследованию. Или ты замыслил вендетту и скорее сам прибьешь непутевого, мешающегося под ногами детектива. Преступник? Наверное, возникнет желание затаиться на дно. Или вернуться чтобы убрать улики. Может, пора делать ноги из города. А может стоит позвонить богатому папе и намекнуть, что вот у того детективчика в квартире наверняка есть неполадки с газовым котлом, того и глядишь - взорвется. Именно такие симуляции создадут эталонный опыт приключения в шкуре детектива, разнообразят даже однотипные задания. Состояние же npc в игре и того хуже. Они вас даже не запомнят, они не о чем не думают. Им даже делать нечего, разве что - спать, ходить и дергать переключатели света. А это одна из центральных механик, наравне с поиском улик и фактов.
- Игре очень зашла бы мастерская с модификациями. Особенно когда помимо качества механик, дел и характеров встанет вопрос о количестве их вариаций. Мне сложно представить, как игра могла бы долго жить без них. Не знаю, смотрит ли разработчик в эту сторону, а даже если да, то каковы шансы на реализацию, учитывая техническое состояние игры в целом.

Отрицательный отзыв не принципиальный, денег не жалко. Очень хочется увидеть развитие и очень больно было бы видеть похороны проекта.

Определенно открытие года. Спасибо Луцаю за рекомендацию

This game made me take up smoking and start drinking black coffee.

My lungs hurt. I haven't slept in days.

I need to crack the case.

记得贝塞斯达那些随机生成的通马桶任务吗？记得骑马与砍杀里面找村长或领主接的那种随机生成任务吗？随机了又不随机，这游戏的程序生成就像那样，不要有过多期待。

- 这游戏最重要也是我觉得最失望的一个点，程序生成：当我看到商店页面内容时我脑子里面想的全是各种奇案悬案，什么小小的偷窃案意外发现连环杀手之类的戏剧剧情，结果进游戏发现案件的开始-过程-结束都是完全一样的，偷窃案？就是简简单单的偷窃案，调查出轨？就是调查出轨，不会有任何故事，动机？不用在乎，你只需要破案就行了。整个游戏同类案件唯一会改变的只有人，地点和线索位置，案件生成就是随机点名，因为案件是无限生成的。就因为是随机点人所以大部分案件玩法也只有大海捞针，请尝试在只知道体型血型的情况下在居民楼找到目标人物吧哈哈。另一类的案件解法完全一样，看电脑邮件就完事了，写了NPC电脑密码的纸条会百分百生成在NPC家里，真的是非常有挑战呢

- 对话没有任何意义，他们永远不会告诉你关键信息，也不会免费告诉你名字和认不认识某个人，你付钱之后他们也只会说废话，就算是他们同事或者家人被杀了他们也完全不在乎。向他们询问死者他们只会【他叫XXX，我在XXX看见他了】这种机械回复

- 这游戏其实是有悬案存在的，就是这个傻逼程序生成完全没有考虑过【必须能破案】然后导致整个案件卡住。我接了个调查出轨的案件，唯一能找到的线索就是A的同事发邮件告诉A【我们在约会软件上配对纯属软件出错了，别提这件事了】这就是和A唯一有交流的人，于是我提交出轨对象是同事，结果是错的，然后案件就直接卡死了，因为没有线索能证明有其他人存在。有次我接了个谋杀案干脆啥都不告诉我了，死亡现场也不告诉我，就只有个案件名字，程序干脆直接不生成了。不止一次遇到NPC没告诉我地址、结案永远卡在处理中的情况，也就是说这游戏任何一个环节都可能卡住，我都不知道制作组在做什么，最基本的东西都做不好

- NPC的攻击逻辑做的太好啦：我只是撞了一下餐厅门所有员工就直接掏枪把我射杀，我在街上打一个NPC，不管旁边NPC和挨打的人是什么关系他们都会掏武器围殴你，跑到没打你的NPC旁边他们要么傻站要么跟着掏武器干你，如果这时候NPC误伤NPC会直接上演一场NPC大战，因为NPC看见NPC打NPC也会来帮忙。街上出现NPC抢劫NPC的事件，这时候你去打抢劫犯，被抢的会来打你、作为一个侦探我连进入犯罪现场的资格都没有，警察看见我进来也是直接开枪、有人在路上抢劫我，你把他引进建筑里再打他还会吃罚款。

- 这个程序生成的城市也是烂爆了，我就不说两个档的城市雷同了，同一城市都能找到一样的建筑和街道，就这你们好意思说程序生成独一无二的城市。居然还他妈有根据图片找到指定位置的案件，制作组是知道同质化拉满所以故意来折磨玩家吗？

- 狂按敲门会越敲越凶的细节非常棒，可惜毫无意义，因为NPC不管你敲得有多凶开门速度都慢得跟老年痴呆一样，要只是等两三秒就算了，可每次你都至少得等七八秒甚至十几秒，我已经不知道多少次傻站在门外十几秒后不耐烦地撞开门意外撞晕刚好在开门的NPC了

- 鼠标左右键功能是完全混乱的，在这游戏每次点击左右键都得看清楚作用。使用电脑右键是使用左键是关闭，当你进入电脑后右键变成了关闭左键变成了使用，而且注意右键是关闭不是返回，你点右键会直接退出电脑只能左键点击电脑屏幕里的返回，然后你用电脑打印信息后要对着信息按右键才是查看点左键没有任何反应。还有电话亭左键开门右键拿起电话然后左键打电话右键挂断左键关门，纯有毛病。

- 线索界面的操作也是一坨，打开线索后上面的大头针点一下就会直接导致线索从墙上消失，但还好这时候线索是打开状态可以重新放上去，问题是我如果要移除线索的话我可以直接右键线索-取下，你这个大头针除了让我误点导致线索移除外还有什么意义？然后又是按键问题，你明明都可以右键打开菜单了，指针移到线索上1秒后出现的五个选项又有什么意义呢？四个选项右键菜单里面都有，剩下的那个选项就是打开右键菜单查看更多功能，真的蠢到家了。你右键是打开菜单，你下面的按键提示也只写了右键打开菜单，能有多少人知道右键还可以拖动界面？左键是框选，又有多少人用得着框选？鼠标中键按住是建立一个新的联系，这个还挺有用的，可问题是右键菜单明明就包含了这个功能你要弄快捷键为啥只给它弄个快捷键呢？？？

- 从线索界面打开的地图能缩放、能聚焦玩家位置、能分层查看，而tab键打开的地图什么都没有，如果你要缩放tab键打开的地图你就只能先去缩放线索界面打开的地图。按X键打开的物品栏只能看余额看不到撬锁器数量，在线索界面撬锁器数量就和余额挨着，而升级界面干脆就只能从线索界面打开了。我就很好奇啊制作组，线索界面是你爹吗？

- 背包默认有八个槽位，前四个槽位放什么直接是固定的改不了，可以快捷键2345按出来，后四个就不能5678按出来了，你只能手动打开背包手动拿出来，什么毛病？

Very fun, I love beating people to death because they didn't give me their name. Very relatable to real police skills. 10/10

I managed to catch a murderer just as they were leaving the crime scene and solved the case in roughly two minutes. Another case took me three actual days to solve because of a misplaced piece of evidence.

One of the best detective games ever made :D

Из за того что в есть функция диалога о попрошайничестве, я напрочь забил на расследования.
Я просто ходил по домам и просил мелочи, и если мне кто-то не давал, я лез к нему в дом через вентиляцию и сжирал всё из холодильника
Лучший симулятор бомжа что я видел.

Мэксон Стрэнглер - это частный детектив с уникальным методом дедукции. Он не просто ищет улики, а аккуратно анализирует данные и исключает все ненужное, чтобы раскрыть даже самые запутанные преступления. Метод дедукции позволяет ему увидеть связи и закономерности там, где другие детективы не могут. Благодаря этому Мэксон Стрэнглер всегда находит правильный ответ и помогает своим клиентам получить желаемый результат.

Запустил игру прошел обучение, решил поиграть в свободном режиме. Заспавнился в городе не имея жилья, начал расследовать дело об убийстве женщины , которое почти мгновенно зашло в тупик, т.к. надо удовлетворять потребности в чистоте и сытости , за неимением жилья решил жить в квартире с трупом. Утром готовя завтрак меня застал в врасплох полицейский, который сражу же открыл огонь по незваному гостю. Разбив окно и выпрыгнув на улице я плохо пахнущий , но сытый и отдохнувший сломал обе ноги и заработал кровотечение. Денег на врача у меня естественно небыло и зайдя в ближайший обоссанный подвал я на свою удачу встретил ростовщиков, которые великодушно заняли мне бешенную сумму денег под конский процент. Денег хватило чтобы поправить свое далеко не богатырское здоровье, и выкупить комнату в каком то другом обоссаном подвале чтобы там прятаться от ростовщиков деньги которым я естественно отдавать не собирался. К моему великому удивлению оказалось что моя комната была ровно в том же подвале аккурат по соседству с ростовщиками. Возможно мне стоило проверить адрес недвижимости перед ее покупкой и может стоило немного посильнее разобраться с механикой расследования в этой игре, но то что я здесь увидел не сравнится ни с чем что я пробовал . Игра 10 из 10.

homicide investigation takes precious time away from apartment decoration. please patch murderers out of the game.

unique little detective game

but let us use the guns

open game
inspect murder scene
track down killer
beat up killers husband
beat up killer
turn in killer
beat up a third guy for no reason
fall through map 4 times
get drunk
beat up fourth guy
beat up cop
fall through map again

job well done time to drink

I needed the fingerprints of who I believed to be the murderer, but they wouldn't give them voluntarily - so I knocked them out and took them by force.

They were, in fact, not the killer.

10/10 would unethically detect again.

I am a huge fan of this game. I do see a common theme with a lot of reviews. I would like to address my view on some of the features of the base game.

The introduction is a breath of fresh air, hearing noises, and checking the apartment for clues when there's a note slid under your door. Not gonna lie, it actually scared me, I thought that I was about to be the one murdered.
The music is charming and thematic. My only problem is a lot of the music does seem repetitive, and don't forget that if you enter a home, start breaking the law, or are being pursued the music changes to fit the situation. However sometimes this does feel wonky sometimes when situations change rapidly in quick succession.

There perhaps isn't that much depth to the A.I. Sometimes, you can catch their little quips about the weather or about something going on. However, this does feel quite empty after a couple days of playing. You can't interact with them outside of hurting them or asking basic questions.

Depth of the cases are not really explained outside of "who did it" and "where do they live" and sometimes a bonus optional mission committing some crime. It doesn't affect payout of the case nor any special rewards promised for solving said case. Just that bonus payout for the optional mission.

Speaking of missions, sometimes they give you absolutely no information, aside from some generic "brown hair, brown eyes" and then as you encounter people. somehow manage to fill out more information about this person without confirming if it's them. Somehow I will have all the details solved for a mission as I accept it due to some information raid I did on several businesses and got a lot of employee files or tenant files.

There are a variety of cases to solve.

Theft jobs which have you finding secret documents or retrieving stolen goods back to the rightful owner.

Arrest cases have you track down a random citizen and arrest them. Sometimes violently!

Photography missions are weird. You need a camera and a victim that doesn't want to be photographed. Sometimes, they will pursue you.

Then obviously, the Murder Cases. Which can be some of the most fun, or unsurprising wastes of time. I responded to a murder call as soon as I could, and the murderer was STILL THERE... hadn't even had enough time to even make it a case. Open and shut case. Then I had to wait for another murder case to happen, and that time I waited before going...

There are sync disks that act as alterations to the world around you or how you interact with it. They can be quite fun, so ask yourself if you're min-max-ing the game, then they can be a helpful lifeline, but its way more fun being a super tiny superhero who can knock people out in 2 punches and charm people into letting them into their homes!

Now my concern:
There does become a repetitive track you can fall into if you're not careful. I recommend taking different jobs, learn your city by heart, try different methods of accessing information; there are actually quite a few. What I see people forgetting is that this is a sandbox. It's only a baseline floor for you, the player, to take it further beyond what that is. When you see a road blocked off, do you go around, or go above it, maybe there's an alternate route. Perhaps, this playthrough you will play it straight. Or as a loose cannon who doesn't mind bending a couple rules to solve the case. Maybe you're the Sherlock Holmes of this town, or you alter your body using syncs to never become tired, or stinky, and are a literal superhero. I can't wait to see what kind of content comes from this game honestly.

This is a sandbox, and the limits are only what you decide they are.

La única posible huella en la escena del crimen eran las pisadas de unas botas talla 13. La víctima murió por disparo de 8mm. Me colé en la oficina de la víctima (era la jefa de RRHH) y obtuve los datos de todos los empleados (7). Los visité uno por uno. Cuando llegué a la última vivienda, la del contable de la empresa, pensé que tenía que ser él sí o sí. Me abrió la puerta su pareja y la tumbé pensando que era el contable xD. Una vez esposada investigué la vivienda. Allí estaban las botas del 13 y la hoja de turnos del contable. Salía del trabajo a las 17:00. Miré mi reloj y eran ya las 18:00 por lo que tal vez llegaría pronto. Me escondí cerca de la puerta principal y casualidades del algoritmo, se acababa de cometer otro crimen en ese momento. Seguí esperando ♥♥♥ la esperanza de que llegase el contable... y llegó. Lo tumbé y lo esposé (sí, tenía un par de esposas para la ocasión). Al analizarlo, obtuve el arma del crimen (Pistola Lazarus) y la munición de 8mm. Antes de resolver el caso me acerqué a la nueva escena del crimen y resultó que la víctima era la directora de la empresa. Efectivamente, por herida de bala de 8mm. Lo único extraño es que no encontré huellas y la que había de bota no era del 13. Esto fue raro pero todo indicaba a que el contable era el asesino como así fue. Caso Resuelto.

CINE

Spend 30 minutes hardcore searching into someone I thought was the killer, turns out it was just some random dude that I've probably mentally scarred for life. 10/10

Had to snip some of the review to make room for the update for the latest MODDING SUPPORT update. But I can say with firm words that this is still a buy at your own peril, best to wait type game. All the bugs mentioned in this review have now been present through several iterations of unlisted "bugfixes". Then to add to it, the only large portion of the MODDING UPDATE doesnt work because mods will not download. Devs PLEASE fix your game

(Tldr: This game started at a 9 but now sits at a declining 6.5. Maybe your experience will differ, but for me every single cool thing was plagued with a bug that made it nowhere near what it tried to be. And that breaks my heart, I'm a huge fan of job sims that can get their systems functioning seamlessly. But this game seems so easily broken by basic player interaction, that I can't recommend it until the devs figure out how to have the world function WITHOUT the player and DESPITE the player. The player impacting things should not cause a pileup of AI behavior resulting in them not living their lives anymore. I've had atleast 4 people in my world that are case vital become broken in some way that made it nearly impossible for me to complete the case smoothly. I want this game to be good, I really do. I hope the dev takes this as constructive and that these are the issues that are ruining the vision. On concept and even in practice if the game functioned how it planned to, this game would be an easy 9/10. But in a game so complex, it's hard to know what is a bug or intended behavior. This leads to you questioning why someone has stood at the same lightswitch in his apartment for 3 days, surely thinking he's not broken and is just doing something important. Don't worry though, he's not broken enough to avoid detecting you, just broken enough to make sure you can't do the case the way you intend. Go knock him out, problem solved)

This game holds an odd spot for me. In concept and in the realm of what the game attempts to do it is phenomenal. This is one of those job simulators that really makes you feel like you've got to figure out how to do things on your own. The way you discover everything from interrogating to espionage to breaking and entering, it is all fun to keep the player engaged and interested. You should buy this game if you are a job simulator fan or a detective game fan or if you want to support the dev going into the future, but it is hard for me to give a recommendation for a game in which I was constantly fighting game breaking bugs. The in game map is abysmal and useless, you have to open the pinboard for it to function slightly. NPC AI breaks regularly. Click boxes for a lot of interactable such as beds and micro crunchers are strangely difficult to use sometimes.

I believe that the early access tag of the game is what should turn people off atm. Given the procedural nature of the game, the entire world seems "alive". People are supposed to have lives and interactions and qualms all without player input. The biggest issue i've found with this is that people will just break occasionally. For example. I often get hard stopped by a character never leaving the area theyre in. People do not seem to care about work as much as they should and end up spending all day in their homes without ever moving a step (thanks for showing me, bloodhound tracker). This always ends up in me just having to whoop the npcs ass to get inside and look around, instead of utilizing the light, sound, and distraction mechanics like they're intended.

On top of that, most interactables and some vital game pieces do not function in the way they should. You will spend hours with the fingerprint scanner, trying to desperately scan 1 print that has procedurally hidden behind something, despite you having a large overall beam for the UV light in the scanner. This should be a scroll wheel type increase or decrease, for game quality sake, so you can search a single print on a single surface easily or tune it down to get 1 print from a set.

Micro Crunchers do not perform well at all. This needs to be rehauled in some way to be more consistently performing. Using the search windows when typing in the cruncher will not lock out your keyboard, so if you have something mapped to N,M, or a few other letters, it will open up the menu box you clicked. Say you want to type "Nick" into the employee database, the first letter would open the Notes tab for me (N for Notes). Then ever subsequent attempt to type the N would do the same thing. That is a small issue, but the real and glaring issues are as follows:
1. You will always be looking at crunchers despite them for whatever reason having text that actively moves with the camera, it makes it supremely difficult to read sometimes especially given that there aren't hotkeys for using the cruncher features such as next page or exit.
2. You will constantly be printing off records or vmail. This is a very cool mechanic that I loved for the first few hours. Then all of a sudden micro crunchers just stopped printing consistently. I attempt to print a record or a vmail and it makes the printing noise but there is no paper that comes out of the machine. I have to often completely quit out of the cruncher to get it to reset. This wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't a whole procedural aspect to people leaving their crunchers on so you don't need to find their passcode. But they do, and you often just can't use that tactic cus it is broken.

Also it seems like anytime you steal something it immediately underlines the "crime" which means someone has seen it according to the ingame tooltip. This is supposed to get the enforcers called on you or something but it just never happens. I've had 40k of fines accrued, knocked out most people in a building, tripped alarms, killed people, and never once have the enforcers even talked to me. This needs to be consistent. There needs to be an actual reason to escape in the vents and not to get seen by security cameras. Everything is so unimpactful at the moment that no matter what you do as soon as you step out of the building you are baptized and forgiven for your crimes.

On top of that, why can't we tell what kind of way someone was murdered? We have to assume this based on the items surrounding them instead of their wounds? If I find a body in a house and they were killed with a shotgun there should not just be no blood. There needs to be actual investigation into the act of the murder not just the suspects and their lives. At the moment, I have a murder case which I have no clue how the guy actually died, as he was curled in a corner of his apartment with no blood or anything and just some crumpled notes about talking to people. This specifically needs to be introduced for the murders. A lack of blood means there is a specific method to killing, but my case is a man got shot by a contract killer and somehow i had to discover she shot him via her bill of sale for her gun. Why can I not see "Oh this man was clearly shot in the heart and bled out". This is a big pet peeve for me.

The sync system seems uninspired. Syncs should be huge upgrades for your character and then your social credit score should be what you use to learn new methods of investigation or training. I feel that having basic skill upgrades be behind syncs which are randomly generated means that players may never see the playstyle they desire. As of currently most syncs provide miniscule, basically pointless streams of income for you to buy nothing but apartments with.

You don't get to purchase a backpack or a briefcase, you are simply stuck with the amount of slots you've got unless you find what i assume will be the sync to upgrade it. In my playtime I didn't find them. Checked every shop every day and just found the same ones. Took every upgrade I could find as far as jobs. The game has a very unfun minigame of balancing your needlessly low inventory space.

Steam Curator


Shadows of Doubt is a game of trade offs, the most significant of which is smack dab in the middle of its premise.

Because shadows of doubt is a playable detective drama without the drama, divorcing the mystery and intrigue of classic detective stories from the fundamental act of detectiving itself.

Procedurally generated victims, suspects, and witnesses can’t deliver unique “aha!” moments in the same way a more curated experience can, but it overshadows that limitation with an abundance of choice and freedom.

The result is an immersive sim that’s clunky and masterful in the same breath, a must play indie title even if, at times, it feels more like an excellent detective framework than it does an excellent detective game.

The elephant in the room is that Shadows of Doubt is early access, and you don’t need to be a detective to deduce that. Starting the game and generating your world demands a profoundly long load screen as your shops, streets, and all the random inhabitants and their complexities are formed.

Far more pernicious is the fact that those complexities weigh on your experience after that initial load too: Shadows of Doubt is a game that buckles under your inputs. Weird bugs and flickering textures are frequent but no flaw is as acutely felt as consistent frame drops at nearly all times.

You’re in buyer beware territory if you choose to jump in this early in its early access period, which is something you may wanna do anyway because of how damn well it delivers on its core fantasy. Complete immersion into being a detective is accomplished thanks to a huge leaning on immersive sim elements.

Sure it’s got your typical vents and everyone leaves their passwords on sticky notes, but what separates Shadows of Doubt from it’s more actiony-cousins is the fact that the highly interactive immersive sim tropes are both the means and the ends. Flipping through papers and documents and obsessively scanning any contact point for fingerprints are the mechanisms that move you closer to your goals of solving whatever mystery it is you’re trying to solve, whether that’s just an attempt to ID someone and snap a picture or performing a classic murder investigation.

Your pause menu is a classic thumbtack board where the relevant topics, pictures, and the red string that links them are deliberate associations you need to make, letting you roleplay as that meme with all the straw-grasping it implies.

It works; It is a game of systems through and through. Power sources all lead back to breakers, city directories contain the names and addresses of all its residents, and computers log email conversations and spam alike. It’s tangible in that kind of way that all the best imm simms are, and it even takes it a step further by throwing some minor survival game elements in there.

Hunger, thirst, and temperature are typically pretty superfluous to manage in a game as relatively combatless as this one is, and it clicked for me pretty early on that these mechanics are here for immersions sake and not difficulties. Cozying up to the fire on a cold night and getting a drink at the bar in between chasing dead leads became these persistent rituals I would perform when getting stuck, and they had their intended effect of pulling me in just that much further and giving me the same sort of mental clearing and thinking time that my character was getting.

But a cigarette and a black coffee aren’t your only recourse when the trail gets cold; because among the many hidden benefits to Shadows of Doubt’s structure is the fact you can just go do something else. Jobs aren’t dolled out linearly, you just exist in the few blocks of generated cityscape and need to make a living and can do whatever detective jobs you want to make that happen.

In the almost-cyberpunk world you inhabit, things are just near-future enough to be reminiscent of our own world but also just-distant enough to have some sci-fi twists. For starters, the corporations that control our future have farmed out being a detective to gig workers… you just walk right into city hall and pick up a murder investigation form that demands you identify the killer but also gives you some optional bonus objectives, like identifying the murder weapon and motive.

You can head to one of the local hotspots and grab job listings off the wall for some lower stakes detectiving that’s usually just the identification of someone out in the world or the acquisition of an important item. Your fee might give you enough cash to buy a new item to help in whatever you were stuck on originally or maybe you’ll just passively stumble across relevant information because it all takes place in the same world with the same streets and the same characters.

But I think what might be Shadows of Doubts hidden virtue; it’s largest differentiating factor that helps it nail the detective fantasy so decisively… is surprisingly the procedural generation itself. I was a skeptic at first; I mean, wouldn’t these mechanics and immersive sim elements be all the better in a more crafted and authored detective campaign with actual characters? It only took me about 30 seconds into playing to realize why that’s not the case:

Because sure, while that’s no doubt a trade being made; you lose the ability to have any meaningful writing in a system like this or even a beginning, middle, and end. Without a punchy resolution you’re left to just kind of meander about the world until you’re bored or, more than likely, you solve the game by identifying the broad strokes of how its murder generation works.

But for that first 15 or so hours, what you get is a game where everyone and anyone could be the murderer. When you’re playing a more linear detective game or even following alongside your moms favorite cop and lawyer shows, what you don’t realize is all the little clues you’re accumulating by the very structure of those mediums. Things like who the named characters or what the camera is pointing at are direction and misdirection in detective experiences that are really just multiple choice tests when viewed through the lens of solving the mystery.

In comparison, Shadows of Doubt is the free form essay. It’s starting a detective journey where the suspect pool is hundreds wide, and funneling that down is as bewildering as it sounds. You’re unlikely to find any thrilling twists when during the revelation of any given murderer, but the path to that discover IS thrilling.

With a robust toolset and a responsive world that lets you use that toolset in most ways you can dream up, Shadows of Doubt creates a sublime framework for detective wish fulfillment. It takes a highly intractable immersive sim world and systems and recognizes that they’re good enough to be an entire game when done correctly, resulting in a game that’s fundamentally about its little interactable details rather than letting them be a compliment to a more traditional action focus.

Sub-par technical performance does cast a shadow over much of the experience, but the highs it delivers make it worth playing regardless… without a doubt.

非常によく出来た本格探偵ゲーム。
ランダム生成された町と人、すべてに細かい設定が付与されている。住所や勤務先、指紋のタイプや足のサイズまでデータを取って個人の特定を行っていく。
最終的に犯人や犯人の住所、凶器などの情報をまとめて提出すれば事件解決。私人逮捕をすることも出来るがそれは任意。
まだ少ししかプレイしていない上にアーリーアクセスだが自由度の高さと作り込みはハッキリと感じる。
気になるローカライズ面も思った以上にしっかりしていた。多少不自然だったり意味が分からない部分もあるが大筋に支障は出ないと思われる。そして何故か日本語音声がたまに聞こえてくる。

悪い点としてはバグのような挙動がちょくちょくあるところ。
情報と情報の紐づけが上手く機能しなかったり、日本語の文章が異常に薄く見づらかったり、光源がおかしくなったり…。
また各所の細かい説明が少なく感じる。これは一体何を意味しているのだろうと疑問を持つことが多い。
開発が進むにつれてそういった部分は改善されていくと思うが現状ではアーリーアクセスであることを念頭に置かねばならない。

My newest infatuation.

Detecting, stealth, problem solving... This is the kind of content that takes hold of your brain if you liked Return of The Obra Dinn.

Sure, it's gonna need that fleshing out, touch ups, and please for the love of all that's this game, the save problems need fixing - all in all though, I'm very much a 10/10 for a nice unique game to bring to the ever growing pool of just "samey" style games.

It doesn't feel like a game I've played before, it has interactions and concepts that stand out. It's a brilliant attempt at a Detective sim without a doubt, though.

I will be so frustrated if this game gets dropped or loses it's momentum because it's going to be one of those word of mouth games for me I can just tell people about, and definitely going to remember it years down the line.

I beg this game reaches a really high quality full release it deserves. A real atmospheric crime solving dystopia where it can be comfy, chaos and engaging all at different stages.

El mejor simulador de ser un detective patoso y corrupto.
Mi primer caso:

Fui a investigar la escena del crimen pero la policía se me adelantó, así que decidí intentar entrar por un conducto de ventilación.

Me perdí, y empezaba a morirme de frio, así que salté por la primera salida que vi, ♥♥♥ la mala suerte que caí en un baño donde se encontraba una señora defecando. La señora se levantó (aun ♥♥♥ sus posaderas sucias) y empezó a darme una somanta de palos.

El conducto por el que llegué quedaba muy alto y no llegaba para huir, así que salí corriendo por la casa buscando una salida ♥♥♥ la señora detrás. La puerta estaba cerrada ♥♥♥ llave. Comenzó la desesperación, huí a otra zona y me encontré ♥♥♥ su marido, el cual se unió al linchamiento. Desistí, acepte mi destino, todo se volvió negro.

Desperté rato después en el hospital, hecho polvo y teniendo que pagar una multa que me dejó en la ruina y en la calle.

Sin duda, juegardo.

Como Criminalista me parecio una opcion interesante pese a que no me van mucho los juegos ♥♥♥ graficos de "Minecraft".
Me gustaria que incluyeran mas a futuro la posibilidad de analizar fluidos (saliva,sangre y s3m3n) en ropa o bebidas.
Tambien seria un detallazo incluir restos de polvora y la posibilidad de comparar el proyectil o la vaina servida a fin de detectar el arma autora del disparo.
Pero en fin,estoy sonando muy mamador.Buenas noches y a los que les gusta los juegos de detectives denle una chance a este :)

Can't wait for mod support

Пришёл на место преступления, а там армяне в нарды играют

Don't play this if you intend care about things like "Search Warrants" or "being nice." You'll spend most of your time breaking into places and stealing things, and all semblance of repercussions becomes null after you leave the premises.
It's Procedural generation, you'll end up with a "Delancey Street" and also a "Delancey Ave" topped off with an apartment called "Delancey Heights" that is nowhere near either of those roads.
World props like Food Trucks seem to pop back in too late, there's some optimization issues with "very large" maps, which are essentially 5x5 city blocks.
Investigations usually call for finding "the specific" breadcrumb trail, so far its been fingerprints on the murder weapon each time, and going to the victims place of employment to find a match and info there.
UI/UX kinda feels scuffed, navigating between inventory, map, and evidence board.
Inventory is limited to four slots, Can't seem to find a way to pawn off expensive stolen goods. my virtual apartment is a hoard of diamonds and questionably-radioactive syringes.

Why the Positive review though? Despite all the flaws the game is still fun. The detective work is rewarding; finding an airduct three stories above the crime scene that leads inside so the Robocops don't get mad at me is great, usually because I'm Breaking and Entering into someone's apartment to do so. It's a good and proper sandbox, with a fun concept. It needs work, but its an Early Access title. The core mechanics are good, which is an earmark that the game won't be permanently in development. Get the procedural gen sanitized, optimize the loading seams, and maybe a couple more tooltips on different world functions, and it's a solid game.

Worth the sale price, this is more fun than a $80 dumpster fire from any AAA studio so long as you're not addicted to PvP hate-gaming, balance patch notes, or anything with common-to-legendary item tier'ing.

1:пришел в квартиру по делу убийства
2:украл водку из холодильника
3:ушёл

为了逮捕杀人凶手，我偷偷潜入，拉掉电闸，顺走钱包，偷吃食物，扣下赃款，不过分吧。（狗头）

Dear AAA Studios,

This game is 500mb and it owns your games. The only other game i know that has done this is The specialists if you like matrix style fast paced shooters (and it's free..).

Dear Gamers,

This game is 500mb and it owns your other detective games.

A real benchmark in detective type gaming has been set. Just buy it.

It was just another night in Great Holstebro.

I was on my way back to City Hall after arresting the only man in town with facial hair, no glasses, an average build, and a name starting with D.

I had had another case in my backlog for a while, one I thought impossible. Tracking down a criminal, one of average build, blue eyes, long brown hair. Age of 36. I'm not one to shy away from abandoning a case gone cold, but with 3000 crows and a Physique Sync Disk, one I had never seen before, on the line, I figured I'd sit on it for awhile.

Anyways, as I approached the corner of Baker Parade and Meyer Boulevard, I saw her. A woman. Short, but proportional for her height, one might call her... average. Her hair was long, like the arm of the law, and brown as the sewer water flooding every basement in this damned city. As I approached I decided to give her a closer look, and then I saw it.

Blue eyes. 36 years old.

I asked her name, she was cagey, wouldn't tell me. Impossible, I have a maxed out Charm Sync Disk. I asked if she knew someone, wondering how she would react to being confronted with a description matching her own. Again rejected. I couldn't arrest her in the streets, too many people around, too much noise. I opted instead to sneak a Bloodhound tracker on her when she wasn't looking, but this only prompted an attack. She drew her Lazarus-5 and opened fire. No reaction from the crowd. As I attempted to defend myself with my trusty truncheon, several others drew as well and began firing on me (ColePowered please add self-defense laws). I was gunned down... but my tracker remained.

After I awoke, I frantically scanned my map, hoping to locate the perpetrator, and there, I saw it. A green dot. Approaching Basement 01 Benitez House. I ran as fast as I could, hoping to catch her in her apartment, where she would have no reinforcements. Going through the door was a no-go. What if she was still armed? I'd have to sneak through the vents.

As I approached the first grate, I looked through, and there she was. Pissing. I waited, and soon she got up, washed her hands, and began brushing her teeth. Directly under the vent. I burst through, truncheon in hand, and put her to the ground. Then the cuffs came out. With the criminal subdued, I searched her apartment for any signs of her true identity. And there it was. A work rota. Street Stall Vendor, 8:30-20:30, Monday-Friday.

Eliza Burton. We got her.

Just another night in Great Holstebro.

Shadows Of Doubt got ROBBED, this should have been awarded 2023's most innovative game-play. "I love Democracy".

Одно дело я разгадывал больше 5 часов...
Я в шоке, что оно было процедурно-сгенерированным...

Очень хорошо!

笑笑视频来的，比当时视频的更好玩了

This game just invented a new genre.

I asked someone for their assistance in identifying a potential murderer; They told me 'No'.

I broke into their house, handcuffed them, stole their most valuable belongings, beat them with a wrench, stole their identity, burglarized their workplace, and then realized I showed them a picture of the wrong suspect.

I knew it was a long shot, breaking into Kelly Walker's apartment like that. But I had a gut feeling that there was something there, something that could crack the case wide open. And boy, was I right.

As I rummaged through her drawers and shelves, searching for any clue that might tie her to the murders, my heart was pounding in my chest. I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being watched, that any moment, someone might burst through the door and catch me in the act.

But I pushed those thoughts aside, focusing all my attention on the task at hand. And then, finally, I found it. A receipt, tucked away in the back of a drawer, for the very shotgun that had been used in the killings.

I felt a rush of adrenaline as I realized the significance of what I had found. This was it, the missing piece of the puzzle that would put The Ritual Reaper behind bars for good. All those hours of stakeouts and interviews, all the sleepless nights and dead ends, had led me here, to this one moment of triumph.

+250 Social Credit.

I return to my empty basement apartment. I sit down and turn on the television and relax, warming up from the brutal cold outside. My phone vibrates. A murder has occurred. I grab my coat and head back into the streets.

Trying to play a good person in this game is very difficult. You can solve cases, but the urge to steal is difficult to repress after a lifetime of gaming.

I'll just stick to being a decent one.

I don't take cases where I'll be forced to rough someone up or steal (I'll pinch chump change and bobby pins for my own sake, but not anyone else's). I will take recovery and arrest jobs. I've yet to have to throw a single punch: if I get caught breaking in, I grab what evidence I can and return later. It's my fault I was indiscreet, and no one should get hurt over that. I do find that my crippling soda addiction gives me the shakes, but that's nothing a quick trip to the local diner can't fix (big tip: meals and drinks are cheaper at sit-down restaurants than vending machines).

When I return home to my basement apartment for a cold shower and a nap, I find myself wanting only one thing.

A cat.

Cat please!

"Shadows of Doubt" is a unique "private investigator" game set in a procedurally generated city with hundreds of fully simulated citizens. It is extremely promising, but also still in a very rough state.

You play a sort-of private investigator in an "alternate reality" 80s cyberpunk setting where corporations are controlling the world and where people can upgrade their skills by installing certain software in their brains or bodies. The setting explains the lack of modern technology (like cell phones, or the Internet), which makes investigations more interesting, and also explains why the game's world is more grim than the one we're used to.

The game doesn't really tell a story (or stories), and that is one of the weaker elements of its current design (but read on). Your character is mostly a blank slate with the only goal of earning enough money to afford retirement, and even the murder cases that you take on hardly have any coherent plot. You rarely find a motive, the game seems to just randomly pick a killer who then starts murdering people, and tasks you to find the culprit via the evidence that's available. Sometimes you can guess a motive or make one up in your mind, the game does provide plenty of hooks for doing so - but the motive never plays any role in the investigation. You can't question suspects or witnesses about specific topics or pieces of evidence either, the conversation system is very barebones. But if you have an imaginative mind, you can definitely spin your own stories based on the information that the game feeds you, and some players are writing amazing after-action reports about their cases. Lots of very interesting situations can emerge in this dynamically simulated world, but it's your mind doing the storytelling, not the game itself.

The mechanics are the part where the game's uniqueness and ingenuity really shine. They are slightly different for the two activities that are available to you (solving murder cases, and doing side jobs), so I'll explain both.

Murder cases begin with you being given the location of the crime site. You can then go there and investigate the scene. There is a huge amount of information that can be checked and may be relevant - from fingerprints to phonecalls to security camera footage to receipts in the trash to personal or professional relationships to bootprints to items left on the scene, and more. The game doesn't hold your hand, it's on you to find the evidence and to deduce which details are important, and which lead may be worth following. This creates a very immersive experience that really makes you feel like a private investigator trying to crack a case, not like a video game character retracing the steps that a developer has laid out for you.

The second gameplay element that contributes massively to the player's immersion, is the amount of detail to which the world is simulated. For example, a citizen that gets selected as the killer may not own a weapon. So before they commit their first murder, they might buy a pistol in a pawn shop. This purchase gets tracked in the sales ledger of the pawn shop. So if the player (after the murder) finds 8mm bullet casings at the crime scene, they can check the city's stores for records of people who have recently bought a weapon that uses such ammunition. The simulation is so detailed that you can even - if you happen to be in the same building and on the same floor as the victim's apartment - see the killer leave and get their identity right there.

It's noteworthy though that due to the large amount of available data and the game's abstinence from guiding you, it is very possible that a lead that you decided to follow turns out to be a dead end. You'll also have to do a substantial amount of legwork - for example, if you believe that the killer might be one of the victim's friends or colleagues, then you may have to investigate 15 different people (14 of which being innocent) until you find the one detail that reveals the killer. Personally I like this aspect, as it contributes to my immersion. Real detectives have to do this kind of legwork too, games usually just don't cover it because they focus on more overtly "exciting" stuff. This game gives you the full blast of the deduction work and legwork that needs to be done to solve tricky cases, and I like that a lot. But you'll have to decide for yourself if that's your cup of tea as well, or if you prefer other games that "protect" you from potentially spending large amounts of time investigating insignificant details.

While the game doesn't guide you, it makes it relatively easy to track and order all the information that you're finding. At any time, you can access your "case board", where you can pin any evidence that you find, and link pieces together with lines of different colors. You can also type a few words for each such line. The game will add obvious connections by itself - for example, if you pin both the victim and their address to the case board, then the game will automatically draw a connection between them. You can move pinned information freely, the connections will stay intact. You can also add sticky notes with any text you want, which can be useful to make personal notes about the case. A game that makes so much information available to the player definitely needs an efficient and customizable way to organize it all, and "Shadows of Doubt" delivers in that regard.

Let's discuss "side jobs" next. These are similar to murder cases, but differ in two aspects: One, you get fewer details to work with, and sometimes just very vague information like "The target is 38 years old, and their partner works as an accountant in an office building at this address". So in order to find your target, you have to go through the employee data of all offices in that building, identify their accountants, and then visit those in order to find out the age of their partners. This can be very engaging (personally I really like the challenge of finding the most efficient way of tackling a seemingly impossible task, and it feels very rewarding for me to eventually complete it), but once again, this won't be everybody's cup of tea.

The second difference between side jobs and murder cases is that side jobs aren't necessarily about arresting someone. You may be tasked to steal a specific item from your mark, to humiliate them publicly, to vandalize their apartment, and more. This also shows that (in true "gumshoe detective" fashion) you're not expected to do everything above board. But all of these side jobs are optional, and there are dozens of them available at any given time. You can choose not to take any that you don't want, and you can abandon any job without any punishment.

The game also provides a progression mechanic via the cyberpunk-style upgrades that you can install. You can install 18 of those, and there are mutually exclusive decisions to make. Some of the upgrades are very useful, others are merely convenient, and some are pretty worthless.

Finally, you have your own apartment in the city, which you can decorate, and you can also relocate to a different apartment. Currently, the decoration aspect is very buggy, so I can't say much about it.

The game uses Minecraft-style voxel graphics. Personally I find this graphical style very ugly, but if it helps to make a game like this possible, then I don't mind - I'm not playing this game for the looks. A small development team like this one has to pick priorities, and this game's focus is clearly on the mechanics, not on the presentation.

And here the dreaded character limit for Steam reviews strikes again. If you want to read the rest of this review (covering usability, bugs, and the state of Early Access), please head to the respective forum thread here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/986130/discussions/0/3829792817307221406/

beat up the widow of the victim because she wouldn't cooperate to give me her fingerprints. took prints off her unconscious body only to find out prints didn't match with the prints at the crime scene. good game gave me much to think about

参考になるかと思うので自分が直面した事件のひとつのあらましを書きます。事件もプロシージャル作成とのことですが部分的にはネタバレになるのかもしれませんのでその時はご了承を。


とある夕刻、殺人事件の一報が入る。現場に向かうが案の定封鎖されているので近くのダクトから侵入することに。忍び足で寝室に入るとそこには被害者が無残に横たわっていた。
どうやら死因は銃撃によるものらしい。壁には「報いを受ける」と大きな文字。部屋中に弾痕。何個か薬きょうも転がっていた。しかしながら証拠はここまで。指紋は2種類のみ。うち1つは被害者のものであり、もう１つは同居人の可能性がある。同居人の名前や職場は家宅捜索で判明したのだが行方が知れない。
ほうぼうを探した結果、町はずれの路上で同居人を発見。しかしながら犯人とは断定できなかった。
事件当時の防犯カメラには怪しい人物はなく、被害者の事件前の足取りをつかむ情報もなし。
さらに被害者の知人や会社関係者を洗うも疑わしい者はいなかった。

ついに捜査が行き詰まる。出来ることがなくなったのでまたしても殺害現場へ。すでに数日経過しており規制テープも剥がされていた。手馴れた侵入手段で寝室をまた調べ始める。そこでふと机の陰に紙屑が転がっていることに気づく。広げてみると「遊びの時間の始まりだ」という文字と共に意味をなさないアルファベットの羅列が。そしてその紙屑には部屋のどこからも検出されない特別の指紋が付いていた。
明らかに犯人からのものだった。しかしながら暗号と思われるアルファベットからは何も得られない。アナグラムかと思い、電話帳や地図を何度も調べたが該当はなし。またしても事件は行き詰まってしまった。

そんな折、またしても殺人事件の一報が。別の事件が発生と思いきや、現場には驚くべきものが。
またしても暗号の紙屑、そしてあの特別な指紋が。これは明らかに第二の殺人であり事件は続いているのだ。
そして今度は監視カメラが役に立った。殺害予想時刻に隣室に入る男性の映像が。だが体の向きがおかしい。まるで被害者の玄関から出てきた方向になっていたのだ。

急ぎ話を聞くことに。ドアをノックをして待っている間、何げなくドアに指紋スキャナーをかざすとそこにはあの特別な指紋が。事件現場以外で初めて確認できた瞬間だった。
出てきた住人は監視カメラに写っていた者だった。本人からはとりつくしまもない態度で情報を得られなかったが、同居人からは部屋の立ち入りを許可された。室内からはあの特別な指紋がとにかく出てくる出てくる。そしてキッチンには殺害に使われたものと同口径のセミオート拳銃が。
しかし容疑者と指紋を結びつけることができない。任意提出も断られてしまった。残る手段は職場に管理されている指紋登録証を入手するしかない。しかし容疑者宅に仕事に関係するものは一切出なかった。
やむを得ず容疑者にトラッカー（GPS）を付けつつ、張り込みをすることに。
その間、容疑者の名前をまじまじと見てハッとする。この名前はあの暗号のアナグラムで表されるものだった。電話帳で見つけられなかった理由は電話帳がファーストネーム頭文字とラストネームで記載され、一方暗号はラストネームのみだったためだ。

４回ほどホットドックをコーラで流し込んだ夜明け頃にようやくヤツが動き出した。尾行をするも外のトイレに入った後に突如踵をかえす容疑者。辛抱たまらずその場で緊急逮捕。その流れで指紋の提供を求めると今度は素直に応じる。指紋は合致、やはりこいつが犯人だった。すぐに逮捕書類を提出し、ようやく事件を解決することができた。しかし1件目の事件の段階で暗号を解けたなら2人目の犠牲者を出すことはなかったのかもしれないことが残念であった。

Этот город прогнил...

Я заплачу вам, если поставите палец вверх [c.50]

Hands down the best detective gameplay I've experienced.
It's difficult to explain how fun and immersive all moment to moment interactions are, something as simple as making a phonecall is actually fun for me in this game.
No quest markers, no 'batvision', it's you in a crime scene, manually looking for evidence that's sometimes rather obvious, sometimes not even there.


This game is also the perfect example of potential. Every single scenario and mechanic is something you can look and say: "What's there is good, but what if they added this and that?"

Keeping expectations on the modest side when it comes to updates is important when it comes to solo dev / small dev teams but then again, most things in this game would go a very long way with 'just one' additional variation added.
One more side mission type, one more way to gather leads etc.
So I'm very excited for the future, even if the updates could be on the smaller side.

The early access shows, but the performance mostly suffers on the streets where it matters the least and I personally haven't experienced any crashes, though they exist.


If there's any negative I'd say right now, it's the balance, gov database is super easy to access and only requires part of the name to get most of the info out of a person.
Some problems are maybe too easy to solve with violence rather than stealth & wits.
And money is little weird, you start super poor but with 1 case solved you become so rich that money becomes trivial for the rest of the game.
Stuff like that. It's not a huge issue especially when it's up to the player to use OP stuff or not.


With the context of this being an early access launch and rather cheap for the amount of content: 4/5

案子破了半个，击倒十个居民

Amazing game. Procedural generated crimes do work. It needs some optimization but almost perfect.

Этот город ЦВЕТЁТ!
Я видел его доброе лицо.
Улицы – продолжение приятных канав, а канавы заполнены чистейшей водичкой и, когда стоки будут окончательно забиты, все эти добрые люди начнут плескаться в ней.
Когда скопившаяся свежесть целомудрия и добродетели вспенится до пояса, все "небинарные личности" и добрые работяги посмотрят наверх и возопят:
- «Детектив! У нас для вас новое дело!».
Ну а я прошепчу:
- «Конечно... С вас [c.2220] крылышек.».

The game is fun for a while, but its not as complex as it first seems and it gets repetitive fast. Not only all the apartments look pretty much the same, but for eg. the emails people get are the same and they all seem to leave a note somewhere with their passwords.
However the main thing i dont like about this game, is the fact that the murders seem to be almost totally random, without any real motives. Like i had a case where i was convinced the killer was a coworker of the victim, as i found a note at the coworkers desk from the victim, informing them that they will likely be fired. At the end it turned out it was just a dude living in the same building with no other connection to the victim. This basically means that you often have to brute force yourself through the cases, by doing things like looking up everyone who is in the address book of the victim, or all the coworkers etc... i feel like in a detective game there should be a way to find the killer by connecting the dots (as most killings in real life are rarely totally random, without any motive or reason).

Also the AI is really stupid, basically non existent. Like they always put an enforcer to the entrance of the crime scene, but they just have to look away for a second and you can walk in without any problems. (Also, if the enforcers don't investigate crimes, and that task is outsourced by the city to private investigators (you), then why is it not allowed for you to enter the crime scene and investigate, why do you have to sneak in???????????) Then when you walk out they dont seem to care that you were just in there. You can also beat up anyone and handcuff them without any real punishment.

-Pierwsze co wszedłem do losowego budynku
-Kamienica
-Idę na któreś piętro
-Pukam do drzwi
-Otwiera babcia
-Pytam czy mogę jej wbić na chatę
-kimtykurwajesteś.jpg
-My job here is done, wychodzę
-Wbijam do kawiarni jak typowy amerykański detektyw, po drodze pytając KAŻDEGO przechodnia, czy naokoło nie działo się nic podejrzanego (oczywiście, każdy mówi, że nie, wiec już wiem że więcej ludzi jest w to zamieszanych niż się spodziewałem)
-Pierwsze co w kawiarni to skaczę po stole, teabagując po drodze solniczke i pieprzniczke, bo nie wyświetlił mi się prompt z klawiszologią i nie wiedziałem jak usiąść
-Siadam, zamawiam burgera
-Zajebisty
-Czas się czegoś dowiedzieć, siadam przy barze
-No dobra, nie siadam, najpierw wziąłem w ręce barowe krzesło przez missclick, odkrywając przy tym nowe opcje
-Pytam typa czy coś wie, ale ten że nic
-Koniec grania dobrego policjanta
-Korzystając z pozyskanej wcześniej wiedzy zaczynam rzucać krzesłami w obsługę
-Wyciągają klamki i zaczynają we mnie strzelać
-spierdalakto.mp4
-Dorwali mnie w kiblu w innym lokalu
-Budzę się w szpitalu
-Dopiero dostaje info, że zadziało się morderstwo
-Nigdy więcej LSD
IGN 9/10

探偵になれるGTA。
このゲームを一言で表すならこれだ。
まず、始めたらチュートリアルからするべきだ。やることがなかなかに複雑かつ、自動生成にも関わらず結構ガチ目に捜査を要求されたりする。
このチュートリアル、めちゃくちゃに犯罪を推奨してくる。
不法侵入器物破損窃盗傷害と罪のバーゲンセール状態。だが、このゲームはこれが普通だ。そもそも前提の現場入りからして不法侵入だし。違法収集証拠排除法則なんていうものはこの世界にない。
どんな手段であろうと犯人と証拠を見つけだせばそれでいいのだ。

チュートリアルの事件も中盤だろうか、どうすればいいのか詰まり始めているかもしれない。だが申し訳ないが、犯人を教えるのは難しい。
世界も、住民も、事件すら自動で生成されるからだ。答えを知ってるわけがない。
君にできるのは、ひたすら手掛かりを追い続けることだけだ。
ただ、コツが無いわけではない。こちらも探偵を始めて数日だが少しは役に立つだろう。
・指紋は徹底的に調べろ。犯人の指紋があったら現場にいた証拠になる。
・情報整理はしっかりしておけ。情報のつながりを一目で把握できるようまとめろ。
・分からない人物は人に聞いてみろ。住んでいる階が分かるなら同じ階の住民はかなり情報を持っている。
・犯罪を躊躇するな。

皆様も、犯罪者として殺人者を追い詰めてみてはどうだろうか。

Этот город прогнил до основания...

TL;DR This game has HUGE potential, and I'm excited to see where it goes - but the procedural generation is somewhat detrimental to the game, leading to cases falling flat and gameplay becoming repetitive. It's good for early access, however.

This game's biggest strength is also its biggest pitfall, and while I absolutely adore the concept, it definitely needs more work to become a full-fledged, fun experience.

Shadows of Doubt's entire gimmick is that it's procedurally generated. This is great. It means that you won't have to deal with the eventual end to a pre-written story, the game's devs won't have to worry about writing a sprawling detective sim - in essence, this game is made to be a semi-endless simulator. Unfortunately, this also means that things are usually not connected in ways you think they might, and that, without an expansive amount of potentially random items, the game veers into a repetitive cycle that gets very boring.

NPCs are flat and stale. Imagine Animal Crossing's boring villager system, but without the personality types. Every NPC is very hostile in their responses to you - which, as a positive, is very accurate to the nature of the story, where most people are miserable due to the society they live in, but it's unusual that almost every person you talk to is immediate to dismiss you. Nobody tells you their name unless you give them $200, or if you cuff them. Everything else about NPCs is stellar, though. They're truly where the randomness shines, with differing fingerprints, handwriting styles, appearances, names, etc. that can help you massively in locating the killer.

Crime scenes are typically very monotonous, though the first few times are an absolute blast - pitifully, you end up getting into the routine of searching the scene, going to the victim's workplace, finding very easy-to-find information and, quickly, locating the killer. I would actually say that the downtime between cases, like the ones where you have to figure out the identity of a criminal to arrest, or to find someone's house to smash up based on limited information, are much more challenging and entertaining.

One of the biggest problems with the murders, though, is that information is very, very rarely connected. You might find a crumpled ball of paper of a love letter addressed to the victim's partner, and, perhaps, the handwriting might line up to a co-worker or neighbor that you've already interrogated. Then you might start to piece together that the victim was killed out of envy. Or, maybe, you'll see footprints leading from the corpse to the bathroom, and might come to the conclusion that the killer escaped through that conveniently open air duct. You'll start following this lead, and then you'll realise... these are pure coincidences generated by the game that hold no bearing, and so you'll end up arresting your average Joe Schmoe who you haven't even met before, and didn't actually have any motive to kill the victim. The game should provide more interesting objective hints, like blood spatters, bullet holes, the pose of the body's death, visible wounds, and the like, instead of just a few fingerprints, and should also provide more subjective hints, like love letters, v-mails, notes, and stuff like that. The context clues you're given should also be much, much more varied. A procedurally generated game should have a vast variation of things to pick from so that you don't see the exact same "Hey honeybunny, make sure to pick up milk!" emails over and over.

I wish Steam had a middle option between Recommend and Not Recommend at times like these.

There's an incredibly strong and fun foundation to this game, but unfortunately for now the systems fall short in providing an interesting or engaging challenge, at least once you've done the first case (the tutorial one). I suspect that once it exits early access it'll definitely be worth picking up, but as is I can't really recommend it.

Performance issues and bugs aside, I think my biggest issue is just that it doesn't really feel like you're a detective, not even a private one that doesn't have to follow the rule of law to get answers. The side missions all have you doing straight up criminal stuff which wouldn't be a big deal if there was anything *other* than criminal things for you to do. You can't even legally enter a murder scene to investigate it since it counts as trespassing, so even if you're trying to do things "by the book", the game just won't let you and you have to break into the apartment anyways. Once you break in though, you basically have free reign to move stuff around, jump, sprint, whatever, no one will come in.

Even something tiny like letting you enter a building if you have a warrant, or chatting up the cops a bit to let you into the scene, small stuff like that would already be a huge improvement, because as it is right all you do is either sneak in through unguarded vents (that no one cares about you entering) or you just lockpick the door and walk in.

The game needs more avenues for gaining access to everything from buildings to information. More fleshed out dialogue options, better info gathering minigames like emails that actually tell you anything useful, recording incriminating conversations from vents, just little details like that, just like the detective media you presumably enjoy considering you're looking at this game in the first place.

Aside from that, the UI/UX is pretty rough as well, I hope a lot of love is put towards that. As is, everything is an information black hole, you can't even find your own address or access your own computer in your own apartment, you just need to memorize/ write it down somewhere.

I'll be keeping a close eye on this one, because I really want it to succeed and genuinely hope that it does.

Resolví mi primer caso de asesinato, me llevo mucho tiempo pero completé todos los objetivos, volví a mi departamento y me lo habían embargado por no pagar; tenía mal olor y necesitaba ducharme, así que forcé una cerradura, me metí en un departamento, me bañé y antes de irme desvalijé la casa, es un simulador de vivir en Argentina 1000/10

I would recommend this to other players...after things have been fixed. I both like and dislike this game but see it's potential. As it is, there is a lot of bugs especially when trying to design your apartment. It has some performance issues to where you would need to save/close out/reopen the game after every hour or two.

Positive Feedback:
The open world strategy for detective work is amazing and immersive. It was really fun trying to figure out who committed the crime. I love when the murders left their "calling cards".

Negative Feedback:
It was a little confusing whether you were a true detective or not as it seems when you were working the case, filling out forms but then entering the crime scene was an illegal action? The performance issues are the lagginess of the game when you have a lot of notes or photos on your crime board and sometimes I found that I have fallen through the world when walking around in the back areas of the city. When I fell (at least a couple of times), I hurt myself so bad I ended up in the hospital and had hefty fines to pay. The time in game seems to be wonky, even if it was 10am some businesses were not open but they were open in the middle of the night. There are no signs posted on the businesses that state when it opens/closes. Another thing is that there are some cases that have sooo little information that it's absolutely impossible to solve unless you get lucky and have already come across that person's name prior.

Recommendations:
Fix the performance issues.
Add the ability to search medical records for: age, height, blood type.
Add the option to be a true detective and not solve cases by illegal actions and allow access to crime scenes.
Fix the bugs with decorating your apartment. For example, the lamps are upside down.
Add at least 1 or 2 more inventory slots.
Add the option to purchase warmer clothes instead of having a heat pack that takes up your inventory or having to find a nearby fire. Even entering buildings takes a while for the cold debuff to go away.
Add the ability to skip past time when sleeping instead of just staring at a black screen for a few minutes while waiting for the time you selected as the alarm to actually come.
Slow or decrease the amount of social points you can accrue, to make game play even longer, as I was able to beat this game within 21 hours of playing.

I am looking forward to seeing how this game evolves, it has A LOT of potential!

Что ж, отыграв 80 часов сначала на лайте, потом хардкоре, сложилось несколько ощущений, так сказать...
Рекомендую только потому что у игры есть определенный потенциал, который пока не особо развит разработчиками. Меня привлекла идея о генерации всего мира, вместе с жителями и работами... но есть и масса минусов.. обо всем по порядку:
Плюсы:
- Полная генерация зданий, квартир, жителей и их распорядок дня (работа - дом)
- Случайные события, вроде нападения на тебя в темном переулке
эээ... Минусы:
- Конечно же, оптимизация... 8 из 10 падений под текстуры в режиме бега (видимо, не успевает прогрузиться район).. и ты тупо просыпаешься переломанный в больнице
- Однотипные преступления (2-3 штуки по факту)... все только упирается в поиск левых отпечатков пальцев и их идентификацию на месте преступления. На 5м однотипном месте преступления уже наскучивает.
- Жители тебя не помнят через 2 минуты. Можно оторваться от преследования и уже потом догнать преследовавшего и мило спросить, как его звать и потребовать дать отпечатки пальцев...
Странности:
- Можно тупо изучить всех жителей города, а наш детектив с на столько хорошей памятью, что запомнит отпечатки пальцев и ФИО абсолютно всех, кого встретит на пути. Потом только сравнивай их через отпечатки на месте преступления...
- Дурацкие побочные миссии: найди жителя, имя которого начинается на S, а еще он полного телосложения и кинь в него едой, сфотографируй.... ээээ.. ну даже если я найду среди жителей этого бедолагу, инфу о котором не знает целиком даже сам работодатель.... это точно задача для детектива??
- Я даже за самую длительную историю, так и не понял, кто я такой в этом игровом мире: вроде детектив, но не могу адекватно арестовать напавшего на меня гопника или хотя бы ударить его дубинкой в целях самозащиты, так как все жители начинают на меня агриться... дела мне выдает мэрия, и туда же я должен их сдавать... и от туда же на место преступления бегут силовики... но я вообще никто, чтобы зайти законно на место преступления, имея бланк о преступлении на руках.. меня тупо застрелят силовики... то есть, я вроде как частный детектив, но совершенно без полномочий.. аналогично с арестами... я тупо бомж с наручниками, работающий по хз чьим указаниям и все что я делаю - "незаконное проникновение" и "незаконные действия". Даже если у меня есть ордер на арест конкретного жителя... хз кем выдан и для чего я это делаю....
- Дома как и при первой, так и при последующей генерации - однотипные все же, как бы разработчики не заявляли о полной генерации... отличие только в коридоре этажей и наполнении квартир с жильцами...
- Иногда попадаются жители, которые ранее уже были тобой арестованы (тогда они исчезают с города).. их просто нет на карте, а дело открыто... придется просто явно их указывать по максимуму без ареста и закрывать дело с явным минусом из-за невозможности нормально закрыть...

В общем, потенциал есть, работы очень много... надеюсь на разнообразие в будущем и оптимизации... хотя, с учетом вокселя и юнити - вряд ли ))) но, даже Тарков сделали по сути на Юнити, посмотрим )

Игра очень комплексная, механики интересные, потенциал огромный!
Но на данный момент не как не могу рекомендовать к покупке, так как это ад из самых разных технических проблем из-за которых вам будет очень больно в это играть.
Надеюсь разработчики не забросят проект, так как если всё это отполировать и довести до ума, то это будет просто отличная игра!

Shadow of Doubt is a very good sandbox detective game, it is an investigation game with infiltration phases. You will have to do several types of work: arrest, take information, solve murders, take pictures...

The whole city is randomly generated as well as each investigation and each citizen has his own story and routine. There is a tutorial at the beginning of the game, but it is vague so you will have to think and search by yourself.
The game has a unique and very immersive atmosphere and being only in early access, it is very promising for the future.

I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a very good single player puzzle and investigation game with a very immersive world and good replayability.

Netušil jsem že tato hra existuje ale je úžasná. Samozřejme jsem nenašel tuto hru že by mi to nabídl Steam.
Steam mi nabízí zásadně odpadní produkty typu FIFA nebo kanálové hry od Indických studií vytvořené v game creator free enginu co si stáhnul nějaký Rashid na záchodě při 5 minut dlouhé pauze ve fabrice na textil.
Tato hra je doslova v lepší kvalitě jak AAA tituly co vytváří 250 lidí 6 let. Na to že je to předběžný přístup je to v o dost lepší kvalitě a o dost promakanější jak herní bída co zvrací velká studia třicetkrát za rok.
O co v této hře jde? Je to procedurálně generovaná hra takže když uděláte novou mapu tak prostě nebudete nikdy mít stejný byt , stejné domy na ulici , stejné obchody a tak. Kamarád když bude hrát stejnou hru tak bude mít jiný lore postav , jiné město a jiné úkoly.
Hra vypadá jak nějaká random blbost ale opravdu se tam myslelo na vše. Dokonce se přistihnete že vás ani nebaví plnit ty úkoly ale je lepší vyčorovat někomu doma trezor a střelit diamanty. Pak si koupíte nějakou zbraň a začnete v paneláku rozpoutávat peklo.
V této hře je celé to město otevřené a jde si vytvořit dost slušně velké město kam můžete zalézt kamkoliv. Každý byt je přístupný , každý obchod má svůj sortiment a otevírací dobu a všechny problémy s přístupem někam se dají pořašit tak že prostě třeba fláknete židli do okna.
Upřímně pracovat třeba v EA a vidět tohle tak na hned dávám výpověď protože bych se styděl že pracuji v takové společnosti co neumí už dělat pořádné hry a nějaké random studio neznámé značky vytvořilo masterpiece.

Celkové hodnocení
Tato hra zabaví jen tím světem jaký je. Prostě svět je tam zajímavý a otevřené je vše. Tohle jsem zatím nikde neviděl.

Klady
+ Procedurálně generovaná mapa
+ Neomrzí to jen tak díky rozmanitosti hry
+ Zajímavá voxelová grafika
+ Budete s radostí zkoušet činnosti jako se třeba sjet antikoncepcí

Zápory
- Menší lagy sem tam ale chápu že je to early access

Hodnocení DoctorCritic
10/10

Я раскрыл убийство кристально, заполнив все пункты, и вот я на пороге того, чтобы зайти в мэрию и сдать бланк об убийстве, как внезапно проваливаюсь под карту и я получаю 30 переломов таза, ногтей и костей, выбитые зубы и вообще теперь персонаж стал инвалидом.

Пишу из больницы в надежде на то, что я доберусь когда-нибудь до мэрии.
И смотрите под ноги.

Этот город прогнил...


А, не, это Уродск, перепутал.

Лучший симулятор вора с элементами детектива

This game got absolutely robbed of innovative gameplay.
If you enjoy any type of detective-like games, this game is for you.

A very unique game with great potential. But as it currently stands, it has a lot of bugs and not a lot of content. The first few hours were amazing as you figured everything out. And the fact that all murders are procedually generated means there's theoretically endless content. However, you'll quickly find out that everything is very samey and there's not a whole lot of different things to actually do. Dialogues for instance as extremely limited. You can only ask a very small amount of questions, and it's always the same questions and usually almost always the same answers. The NPCs has no real differing personality or anything so every interaction you have will always tend to feel the same.

I want to reiterate though that this game has MASSIVE potential to be a truly modern classic. No game has been able to capture the essence of being a noir detective (or even a detective for that matter) in a sandbox enviroment. Putting up clues on your board and connecting them with pins and threads made my dumb ass feel incredibly smart. And it's really satisfying when you finally connect the dots and find the culprit.

So why with much praise am I giving it a negative review? Well, I have to judge the game as it is now. Not what it might be in the future. And as it is right now I probably wouldn't recommend it. You can get a couple of good hours in before it starts feeling shallow and repetitive. With content updates and mod support (that has been announced) the game will most likely be an amazing game. However, it has been 5, maybe 6 months now I think since the game released, and we still haven't gotten a single content update. Supposedly there's one coming this month, so all I can do is hope it adds some meaningful content to actually encourage going back to the game. I will probably go back to my review and change it to a positive one when I feel like the game in its current state can stand on its own. Maybe the first content update might even achieve that, although I'm not particularly optimistic.

I'd say if you're interested in this game. Put it on your wishlist and wait for maybe 2-3 years and check it out then.

EDIT: The first content update was released. However my review remains the same. It's a step in the right direction. But after almost half a year of waiting it was extremely underwhelming. 2 new mission types, 1 new building and 1-2 new dialouge options. That's not really enough to even bother going back into the game. Again, it's a step in the right direction. But at the pace we're going, the game will only get to a stage where I might recommend it in like 3+ years.

Надеюсь, можно будет ловить не только убийц.⠀⠀

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Easily recommended for anyone who ever wanted a game where you're an actual detective. Not some schmuck running around following objective markers.

The gameplay loop is you are either given a small amount of information about a person and have to track them down using that, or you are given a crime scene and have to collect clues to lead you to whoever did the crime.

For instance, you may be given a photo of the person and nothing else. You can ask people if they recognize the picture, which may eventually lead you to building they work in or live in. Now you can either check the files on employees or residents till you find who they are, or you can continue asking their neighbors.

If you like action, this game might not be for you. Its deliberate. Steady.

Quite possibly the only game actually replicates INVESTIGATING.

Its niche, to be sure, but for anyone who enjoys this sort of thing its a one of a kind treat.

Amazing. Bought it after seeing rimmy's video. The procedural murders are the highlight, you can spend hours piecing together clues and chasing down leads. Also all the major bugs were fixed in a day, so the dev cares a lot about supporting the game. It's amazing how feature complete the game is already.

One gripe currently (28-04-2023) is that side jobs can sometimes spawn with 1 or 2 low value clues like "the target has grey hair" and nothing else, so you kinda have to accept and abandon until your get one you can work with, but the main murder cases are great. Love the apartment system aswell.

Highly recommend.

ps. Actually play the game before you start asking for guns. It defeats the point of the game, and if you're getting into combat where you're being shot at enough for you to need a gun, you're playing the game wrong.

You never need to shoot a suspect, you can always knock them out, the only time you'd want a gun is to shoot all the police you've set off, which would kinda make YOU the biggest murderer in the city, kinda ruining the point of the game.

Я свалился в случайную квартиру из вентиляции, а спустя час оказалось, что хозяин квартиры и был убийца по делу, которое я пытался раскрыть. 10/10

背包栏用同步磁碟可以扩充栏位。“社区”满级加两个，“体质”满级加三个，“体格”满级加两个。
同步磁碟做任务或者买或者去高收入人群家的保险柜里偷。
公文包拿在手上然后左键打开。
去别公寓破坏财物的任务照着浴室和窗户的玻璃砸。
任务如果有个让丢到海里的公文包，别打开，是炸弹。
背包里点击物品然后按数字键可以设置快捷键。
UI左下角显示当前位置，中下显示导航位置。
城市大厅内部电脑有名字就能查所有居民的数据。
上下楼有电梯，地图左上角房子图标可以查看当前住的公寓。

절차적으로 생성되는 복셀 세계에서 단서를 직접 수집해 범인을 잡아야 한다

정해진 스토리나 NPC는 없고 전부 무작위로 생성되며, 사건도 무작위로 발생한다


내가 해야 하는 일은 살인 현장에서 시체를 조사하고 사망 원인을 찾고 단서를 수집하는 것이다

피해자의 배경을 조사하고 주변인물을 탐문하고 동선을 파악해 상점의 CCTV를 돌려보기도 한다

그렇게 모은 단서를 차근차근 따라가 범인의 손에 수갑을 채우고 양식을 채워넣으면 사건 해결


해야 할 것과 조사해야 할 것들이 많아 피로할 수도 있지만, 몰입감이 훌륭하다

실제로 카페나 용의자 집 앞에 죽치고 앉아서 기다리기도 하고 몰래 문을 따고 들어가 증거를 수집하기도 한다

그렇게 번 돈으로 집도 사고 꾸밀 수 있으니 몰입감이 배가된다

계속 업데이트 중이며 미래가 더 기대되는 게임

I went down to the flooded basement to look for the phone records, unfortunately they were in the room above so I didn't need to do that, and by wading through the murky basement water I became stinky so I decided to head back to the crime scene to use the victims shower before moving on to the next building to investigate. But by the time I went back the Enforcers had already shown up and barred the place off. So I went down 3 floors and kept knocking on peoples doors until I found one where no one was home. So I waited for the cameras to look away from the door so I could charge at it and barge the door down, that worked perfectly, except there actually was a person home and they were just asleep. At least, until I woke them up by barging down their door. They attacked me on sight so I defended myself and knocked them out cold with a couple punches. Afterwards I took all the money out of his wallet and used his shower before leaving.
Lots of fun, would recommend!

很有潜力的游戏。
希望能够优化一下，有时会有存档卡住和闪退的 现象，还有一些bug，经常从楼上掉下来。
还有就是希望直接弄个可以长期使用撬锁工具吧，感觉搜索回形针和撬锁工具蛮没必要的，非要说的话，不是有专业的撬锁工具吗？而且一般也很耐用。这样的话，就没有必要地图上下搜索回形针了，也能更好的操作。
还有就是，目前来说，故事是没有主线的，就是破案和接任务，要是能够加一条主线的话，游戏的故事性就上来了吧。如果是嫌弃主线会破坏游戏的随机性，直接把主线放在市政厅的公告栏上不就好了，让玩家自己去接主线，不过这样的话，最好标明这是主线任务。
其实加主线主要是想更好地串联世界观，在夜阑人静里面，主角是个退役警探，而且通过文件还能知道，主角以前在局里是个能力高，负责任的警察，然后25岁就退役了，这不是让人觉得怪怪的。而且，FPORW是个专门帮助退役警察寻找低廉房子的组织，主角的第二套房子就是这么来的。再加上，城市难道没有警局，只有市政厅吗？为什么不考虑加个警局呢？而且按照夜阑人静的背景，不可能所有警员都不认识主角吧。更重要的是，主线还可以把各个组织更好地串联在一起，嘶哈可乐，红牙龈，全动等等这些组织，只是拿来做背景板也太可惜了吧，每天看新闻报纸，还有看加载界面的介绍时都觉得很有趣，要是能够加入主线就再好不过了。
最后就是，为什么主角只能用拳头打架，再不济就是丢东西，而路人们不是掏刀砍人就是掏枪射人，什么废物主角。希望能加个战斗系统，起码要让主角会开枪射人吧。而且物品栏太少了，要是能开枪射人的话，希望能把武器和拳头放在一块，自己调整到底要拿哪个来攻击对方。
突发奇想，为什么没有伪装系统呢？比如说装成水管工，去目标家里修水管，但实际上我是一个偷偷搜集线索的侦探，毕竟我看很多警察执法，很多小偷都是拿这些差不多的方法踩点和确定目标资产的，最优秀的侦探往往采用最朴实无华的操作。再比如说，我装成执法者，大摇大摆地进入案发现场，就不用天天跟执法者玩躲猫猫了。

Начал новую игру, сразу побежал в Мэрию, так как там легче всего быстро разжиться алмазами и синхродисками, в одном из компов безопасности случайно включил тревогу на всех кроме себя, по зданию активировались тюрели и начали стрелять по людям. Быстренько выключил и пошёл искать дальше, минут через 10 вышел из здания и пошел по делам. Буквально через пару минут прилетает дело об убийстве. Тело нашли на улице, огнестрельные ранения и какие то пентаграмм вокруг тела (из-за чего не сразу догадался). Нашёл её работу в мэрии, и по камерам понял что её за*уярили турели. Пословица о том, что в расследовании главное не выйти на самого себя заиграла новыми красками.

так и не поняла, играю за детектива или за вора

从侦探模拟器到小偷模拟器，再到gta5

设计的非常好，NPC的行为逻辑做的也特别有意思，确实是真实地毯式搜索探案的感觉
但是bug太多了真的好痛苦，新手教学都可能没法正常进行下去
我第一个档教学卡在房子没了给我个临时地方住结果那个地方不存在（名字大概变成了unknown)
然后第二个档第一个案子我在人被杀的地方发现是凶手家，结果出了两个bug……
一个是凶手回家，我把他铐起来结果无法提交案子
第二个是他要求我去搜周围找线索，结果指引让我找的居然是死者家……而死者是死在凶手家的
所以不推荐购入，等修的差不多了再说，对基本游戏体验影响太大了

SUPER cool ideas, very ambitious and pretty immersive. You can do things like hack a terminal and toggle the security so it'll shoot all the previously happy workers in city hall just minutes into playing without realizing what you did. Vents are everywhere, and they all connect, just not always in a logical fashion—a huge portion of ducting went through my character's apartment in the opening tutorial sequence which I thought was just commentary on dystopian lives.

At the end of my session my main takeaway is that it feels very, very buggy, to the point where I'm not having fun.

Yes, it's early access. Yes, I understand that it's not done. I just would have trouble personally charging for this at the moment since it feels like a demo, or a proof of concept, with a few buffered edges on the highly visible things.

I REALLY like the case system, and I think that this is the correct sort of game to use this kind of system since linear games will just... railroad the experience and make it oppressively sterile. It still needs a bit more work, though. The UX is not absolutely horrible, but there needs to be a cleaner, faster way to sort through your collected bits of info. It also needs to not automatically link some things, as it removes the "ah ha!" moments, while also accepting alternative but comparable forms of comparable evidence, rather than just examining a body to glean all the relevant details each time (at least in the case of murders).

I was hoping for an emergent gameplay experience, and in some ways it is; you can generate a city (very cool), go into any building (very cool), dig through people's stuff (cool, but limited variety), and solve cases from multiple sources (cool, but also lacks some variety). NPCs have lives, which is also neat, but they are very sterile in practice if they aren't involved with a case.

This feels like an excellent framework that needs a couple of years to really flesh out the generative stuff you have to sift through, like vmails, help postings, etc., to make it feel less like Skyrim style "Radiant" quests with "infinite gameplay". It's cool for a bit, and definitely worth experiencing for an hour or so, but it kind of feels like a tech demo to show off the impressive map generation.

In ~3 hours I played, I ran into the following notable things:

• Multiple containers doors/intractable objects not spawning properly, with objects floating in the air or in full view
  
• Many areas are generated with very narrow geometry, making some areas difficult to squeeze around (odd for things like laundromats, etc)
  
• Changing or confusing descriptions of NPCs
  
• Names in written things, like vmails, either being "[first name]" or " " occasionally
  
• Harsh in-world lighting and art style make it difficult to accurately ID folks based on their photos
  
• Handcuffed NPCs offering to talk, but not allowing me to
  
• Unable to collect prints from handcuffed or unconscious NPCs
  
• Container interactions taking precedence over notes without shoving it into my character's face
  
• NPCs phasing through walls or tight geometry
  
• Obvious evidence, like spent casings for rounds, not really mattering
  
• The ability to buy a gun, and hold it like a banana in your hand
  (This one's a design choice, but one that works against immersion—you're an ex-cop!)
  
• Ambiguous labeling for things ("Security" vs "Surveillance", etc.) that, honestly, could be labelled better in general

The gun design thing is a real confusing choice. From what I've read, it's so NPCs have a way to buy murder weapons. It's claimed that using a weapon would potentially mess with "proc gen", presumably because you can kill NPCs that way, but I'll argue that your ability to buy them only dilutes the experience and serves to waste the player's time and currency.

As I opened: you can have turrets gun down people indiscriminately. Just lead people and get them shot. There's a sword, too, which makes even less sense for an ex-cop analog to use, but it's perfectly viable and readily available. Why hamstring yourself from including another noir/crime story trope to throw into the mix? The game needs more than it has now, not less.

Design choices like this lead me to believe that it's possible that the game could be finished and end up in that strange middle ground—hyper immersive (or "realistic"), but with a very narrow scope in mind that prevents it from becoming the full-spectrum sandbox like it's absolutely primed to be.

On top of this, performance wasn't anything to write home about. DLSS inclusion is nice, since the game chunks real hard in some cases (X5900 / 3080). There were some performance issues while walking around, guessing it was a loading issue as things would pop in as I went around corners, etc.

El juego es visualmente agradable, interesante y entretenido. ¿Por qué no lo recomiendo actualmente?

Actualmente no recomiendo su compra porque, a pesar de dar la sensación de estar bastante completo, una vez has iniciado varias partidas y llevas unas cuantas horas (yo llevo 7), te empiezas a dar cuenta de que hay algo en el "game loop", concretamente en la generación procedural de los casos que falla -está verde, más bien-, ya que al final, acabas resolviendo los casos igual. En mi caso, casi todas las partidas llegan a un punto muerto, en el que me tengo que resignar a sacar todas las huellas de los pomos del vecindario de la victima y meterme en las casas que sospecho, hasta ¡oh el asesino dejó el arma del crimen en mitad de su cuarto de estar! ¿Que cómo he llegado a descubrirlo? Porque el amable asesino ha dejado entrar a un completo desconocido, ♥♥♥ aspecto de detective a su casa, sin haber recogido las pruebas del crimen.

Por ello, una vez se vaya actualizando el juego y la diversidad de casos y posibilidades de resolución sea más amplia, revisare la crítica, pero por ahora no lo recomiendo.

P.D.: No lo compres porque lo juegue tu streamer.
P.D.2: Si lo compras, descúbrelo a tu marcha, no te fastidies la experiencia mirando guías.
P.D.3: Parece que han actualizado bastante en este tiempo, pronto revisaré la reseña.

This game requires your whole brain. If you're ready for that, there's no other game like it. I don't remember the last time I had this much fun playing a game - it's amazing.

It doesn't hold your hand at all after the tutorial. DO NOT SKIP the tutorial. YOU have to connect the dots, YOU have to put them together to form a conclusion and arrest the right person.

Do yourself a favour and get this game.

定期的に事件が起こる街で(一応)探偵として生きてゆく。自由度が高すぎて探偵というよりクライムゲームの様相。

大勢(最大サイズのマップで600から800弱)のNPCが暮らす街で気ままに生活し、事件が起きたら調査に向かい犯人を捜すサンドボックス。
腹が減ったら飲食店で料理を注文し、喉が乾いたら飲み物を買い、体が汚れたらシャワーを浴び、凍えたり雨に降られたら屋根のある場所へ逃げ込む。

事件発生の報せを受けたら役所で調査書類を受け取り現場へ向かって遺体や遺留品から傷跡、指紋、交友関係などを調べ、それらを足掛かりに街全体へ調査範囲を拡げていく。犯人を見つけるだけでなく凶器の特定や、自分で犯人を捕まえる等で報酬を増やせる。

ランダム発生する事件以外にも役所や飲食店で掲示板に貼られた依頼(指定された人物を撮影する、危険人物を逮捕するなど)を受けられる。依頼書の番号に電話→〇〇の公衆電話が何時に鳴るから出ろと指示される→この電話の近くにブリーフケースが置いてあるから開いて詳細を確認しろ→ケースを拾い中身を見るといった風に回りくどく、それっぽい雰囲気のやりとりを楽しめる。
依頼の他に物件情報が貼られる事もあり、記載された金額を支払えば自分の家を持てる。

人々はそれぞれ生活を営んでおり、家には食べ物、飲み物、シャワー、金庫、社員証、ドアの鍵、財布、パスワードのメモ、手紙、メール履歴など様々なものが蓄えられ、なにかしらの方法で侵入するとプレイヤーはそれらに手を出すことが可能。
冷蔵庫の中身を食べたり、書類から個人情報を収集したり、シャワーを勝手に浴びたり、金目の物を盗んで質屋に売ったりとやりたい放題。ではあるがそれら犯罪行為は罪状に応じ多額の罰金が科せられ、調子に乗り捕まってしまうと財産を一瞬で失うリスクがある。あくまで調査の一環だったとしても例外ではない。


分別をもって地道な調査にいそしむか、非協力的な相手を叩きのめし強引に情報を集めるか、ただの空き巣や強盗になるか、生き方はプレイヤーに委ねられている。


注意点
処理が重い
チュートリアル事件の難易度が高い
ゲーム的都合により警備や追跡がザル

I really love this game. I watched Insym play and he was right - it is amazing game.

Broke down the pawn shops door now they're open 24/7 10/10 game will play a lot

- Precisei sair de um prédio.
- Saí da ventilação da casa de uma véia.
- Surrei a véia.
- Sai do local como não houvesse nada.

[Je nomine Shadows of Doubt aux Steam Awards 2023]

Shadows of Doubt est un jeu d'enquête et d'infiltration à la première personne se déroulant dans une ville dystopique composée d'éléments et technologies "rétros".

Entièrement en voxel et généré procéduralement, chaque pièce de bâtiment de la map est explorable, chaque personnage est inter-connecté aux autres et a une identité propre et donc chaque "crime" est généré durant le chargement de la partie afin de proposer des enquêtes. La vie des PNJs est entièrement simulée et leur monde continue de tourner avec ou sans votre enquêteur.

le jeu propose un tutoriel avec une première affaire à résoudre, ensuite vous êtes libre de choisir des enquêtes importantes en mairie ou les petits boulots d'enquête proposés dans les petites annonces de commerce et menait votre carrière de manière "bac à sable".

Le gameplay tourne autour de plusieurs technologies à votre disposition, vous permettant de prendre des photos, pirater des verrous chiffrés, relever des empruntes. Vous pouvez vous infiltrer, regarder sous les portes, vous dissimuler dans une armoire ou sous un lit, crocheter une serrure, fouiller une poubelle, un ordinateur, un casier, aller chercher une adresse dans le bottin, tracer un appel téléphonique, pirater la sécurité d'un lieu; le gameplay "actif" étant principalement de l'infiltration et de l'interaction avec des personnages et éléments de décor.

Le gameplay plus "passif" est le fait de tenir un "tableau de bord", dans lequel vous allez organiser vos indices relevés, que ce soit des empruntes, numéros téléphoniques, identités, adresses etc. Vous pouvez créer plusieurs tableaux de bord et mener plusieurs enquêtes à la fois, le système d'organisation étant très poussé et nécessitant tout de même d'essayer les choses (car non expliqué de manière approfondie en tuto).

il y a également un système d'amélioration de votre personnage qui n'est pas encore prêt à ce stade du jeu. Il y a aussi du combat, mais dont le système dissuade grandement de l'utiliser (autrement qu'en dernier recours).

A ce stade du jeu, vous allez constater pas mal de perte de FPS par moment quand il y a beaucoup de PNJs autour de vous, car beaucoup d'éléments à traiter, ainsi que des bugs visuels, évidemment c'est une early-access et rien que la première update majeure, en plus de correctifs réguliers et intempestifs, va proposer : _Plus de bâtiments, _De petits boulots, _Plus de possibilité d'interactions avec les PNJs.

Mais déjà, rien qu'avec le premier crime proposé par le tuto, on peut constater toute la diversité du gameplay, l'originalité du jeu, sa singularité, ses possibilités; à quel point ce jeu que j'attends depuis des mois n'a pas menti sur les promesses qu'il faisait sur papier.

A la première enquête, que j'ai dû recommencer en partie, car je découvrais le jeu en même temps, j'ai constaté que la mécanique du gameplay qui consiste à suivre des pistes qu'on a relevé et qui est plus "dirigiste", me menait au même endroit où le suspect se cache, que si je n'avais comme seul moyen, que de lire les informations que j'avais trouvé dans un dossier contenant plusieurs identités, en recollant le profil de la victime avec celui chez qui on retrouve les mêmes éléments de langage et donc fonctionner par ma seule déduction. Dans les deux cas, cela m'a mené au même suspect.

Cela veut dire qu'on a un VRAI jeu d'enquête, pas seulement un jeu d'aventure de détective avec un système dirigiste qui nous mâche le travail, mais un système de jeu très "organique" sur lequel on peut vraiment s'appuyer sur la déduction et parvenir à résoudre l'affaire de différentes manière; avec le sentiment de mener un vrai travail de détective; renforcé par le fabuleux système de tableau de bord.

Même sur l'avant dernier jeu Sherlock Holmes, vous n'avez pas ça et votre tableau de bord qui s'affiche ne vous demande de déduire qu'en toute fin. Ici, vos neurones comptent autant que votre skill de ninja de réseau d'aération.

C'est le jeu que les fans de Deus Ex que les fans de la première heure n'espéraient plus, c'est aussi le système de jeu de détective que bon nombre de personnes ont toujours rêvés d'avoir.

Shadown of Doubt était le jeu que j'attendais de pied ferme depuis des mois (avec Manor Lord) et je ne suis pas déçu de cette early-access qui remplit ses promesses. Enfin un VRAI jeu de détective avec un gameplay immersif, exigeant et très intelligent. Une belle réalisation qui va évidemment demander des ajustements, ainsi que la suite du gameplay que le studio a prévu, mais frappe déjà fort avec cette version disponible au public.

C'est un GRAND OUI pour Shadows of Doubt, qui va probablement s'imposer comme référence dans les jeux d'aventure de détective et à qui je souhaite déjà moult récompenses et succès à l'avenir.

In the world of gaming, where sequels and remakes often take center stage, 'Shadows of Doubt' emerges as a breath of fresh, innovative air. While it's not without its flaws, this game is a bold leap into what feels like uncharted territory, breaking away from the well-trodden paths of standard video game formulas.

The freedom to approach cases in various ways—whether through breaking into seedy hotel rooms or analyzing a discarded receipt—offers a level of immersion that is as rare as it is captivating. Each case presents a new puzzle, with varying culprits and clues, challenging players to truly think like detectives.

The game's commitment to a fully simulated world is its crowning achievement. The level of detail in tracking each citizen's life—from their daily routines to their personal interactions—adds an unprecedented depth to the gameplay. This meticulous design invites players to lose themselves in the game's rich, noir-esque universe, making every discovery and piece of gathered evidence feel earned.

While 'Shadows of Doubt' is ambitious in its scope, it's this very ambition that gives it a raw, unpolished charm. It's a game that isn't afraid to take risks, and it's these risks that make it stand out in a crowded market. The potential for growth and refinement is vast, and with continued support from the developers and the community, this game could evolve into a benchmark for innovative gaming.

In conclusion, 'Shadows of Doubt' is more than just a game; it's a daring venture into the future of interactive storytelling and immersive gameplay. It's a must-play for anyone yearning for something different, something that challenges the norms and offers a glimpse into what the future of gaming could hold. Here's to hoping that the game receives the love and support it needs to flourish and continue breaking the mold.

Shadows of Doubt has incredible highs and frustrating lows.

At its best, the game is an unbeatable detective experience. There is absolutely no hand-holding or "set path" you have to take to solve a mystery. The city truly feels alive, there are literally hundreds of moving parts at any given moment. You can search for clues however you want, and connecting the case facts into a solid theory is entirely left to your own wits and creativity.

The game has one tutorial level, a semi-scripted case for you to learn the mechanics. I honestly enjoyed this case the most. Everything flowed very smoothly, and there was an actual, genuine story to follow. It also did not feel forced or linear.

Then there is sandbox mode - the main draw of the game, where mysteries and "jobs" are constantly generated. As much as I wanted to enjoy it, I ultimately think sandbox is WAY too punishing to the player.

You will start out dirt poor in sandbox, without enough resources to investigate actual murders or important crimes. This means you will have to start out doing ♥♥♥♥♥♥ odd jobs for shady people, like taking photographs and stealing stuff. (There is also a "public humiliation" job I never tried, nor do I want to.) But even when you do start investigating murders and serious crimes, you feel helplessly alone doing so. The actual in-game police are not your friends, they will hinder your efforts at every opportunity. Not to mention every person in town, even people like the victim's friends/coworkers who should be helpful, are hostile to a comical degree.

The bottom line is: in sandbox mode, you will often be fighting, stealing, stalking, breaking in, and wildly running away from cops and robbers 90% of the time. (You'll probably end up doing more crimes than the criminals you're actually trying to catch.) There are still some chances to put your detective brain to work, but they're far more rare than I had hoped.

I'm giving it a positive review, though, because the concept of a free-roaming detective game is the stuff of my dreams. It's also in early development - expect the game to improve a lot as time goes on!

Actually a decent game but missing too much as of right now. One of the most important and intriguing things in any criminal case is the "why?" and this is where this game unfortunately lacks. From what i have seen so far the murders have no motive. You just find whoever it was through fingerprints, put em in cuffs, turn in your case and that's it. But why did they do it? No clue. It's really not satisfying if everybody is just a psycho who kills seemingly randomly with no rhyme or reason behind it. Some suggested to make up your own motive as to why they did it but that's not what being a detective is about. They want to find out the truth. Another thing is that once you cuffed them you can't even ask questions. Why not?

There also some bugs and performance issues but that's totally fine for early access and will hopefully be ironed out.

It's also weird that you are a supposed to act like a detective but between cases you just turn into another criminal by having all those requests that want you to beat somebody up or steal something. It would be nice to have more variety there in terms of what you can do.

NPCs while dynamic have nothing interesting to say. I spent like an hour asking NPCs if they saw something suspicious. I heard "nothing" probably 100 times.

Procedural generation also needs some work but is solid for the most part. I had a couple of ducts that were just complete dead ends with no where to go except back to where i got into it.

All in all this has big potential but i'd give it a couple of months of wait.

Собачьи туши в переулке поутру, след шины на разорванном брюхе. Этот город боится меня, я видел его истинное лицо. Улицы - продолжение сточных канав, а канавы заполнены кровью. И когда стоки будут окончательно забиты, вся эта мpазь начнет тонуть. Когда скопившаяся грязь похоти и убийств вспенится им до пояса. Все шлюxи и политиканы посмотрят вверх и завопят: "Спаси нас", а я произнесу "нет". Теперь весь мир стоит на краю, глядя вниз, в чертово пекло. Все эти либералы, интеллектуалы, сладкоголосые болтуны. И отчего-то вдруг никто не знает, что сказать. Подо мной этот ужасный город, он вопит как скотобойня, полная отсталых детей, а ночь воняет блудом и нечистой совестью.

I'm about 15 hours in, I'll be honest at the start I had a rough go trying to understand and get through the tutorial. User error mainly. I've only completed 3 missions so far, but I expect to keep playing. I really enjoy how each time I play, a little more stuff unravels, and I can do or figure out more things. 9/10 for an early access, the tutorial stage could use some polishing for slow learners like me!

This game is incredible. I've never played anything like this. A true immersive simulation. There's some rough parts here and there. But the possibilities with this game are endless (especially if you consider it's just getting started). There is already so much content that this is a must play game for ANYONE. It doesn't matter who you are and what type of games you like. You need to give this game a try! You won't regret it.

This is a really tough game to review. I really want to love this game. It is very ambitious and has some cool RNG cities. Is it fun? Oh yes! It's a very unique game and I like it. So why the negative review?

Well, the game is simply full of game-breaking bugs. And I mean really game-breaking. I had to delete entire worlds with hours of progress because it started bugging out. Hitboxes of floors would randomly dissapear or getting stuck and get teleported into a strangers home are the most common examples. A friend of mine also had 2 worlds where almost no murders happened. That's kind of an issue for a murder mystery game.
I also got softlocked out of the tutorial twice. Once because of an alarm that I accidentally triggered was impossible to turn off again locking me out of a building permanently and the other where the RNG build of the world placed my only escape route out of reach, causing me to always get caught by the cops. Lucky this is not an issue in sandbox as it's non-scripted.
The rest of the game is really fun, though it get's repetitive quickly (90% the same dialogue for every NPC, usually the same steps into solving every murder etc.), it's still remains fun and has a good difficulty to it. Maybe even too difficult at points.

If you can live having your world break at times and have to start over, then you might really enjoy this game. It's very open world, though the worlds are small (unless you have a really good pc that can handle the larger worlds), but expect there to be bugs and expect the game to not hold your hand in anything at all.

This game has HUGE potential, but at the moment the gameplay just feels repetitive and technically unreliable.

Please translate it into Korean

Играл на пиратке, очень понравилось.
Купил игру только чтобы задонатить разработчику за его труд.
Игра заебись!

Disclaimer: I spent 10+hours with the demo version earlier this year so this review isn't based purely on 90 minutes of play time.

The Good: First impressions in terms of atmosphere and player freedom are very promising. Procedurally generating a city block with this much granular detail is no mean feat. The fact that you can interact with every object and NPC is initially exciting and a bit overwhelming. The tutorial case throws you in at the deep end and you really DO feel like a detective who is painstakingly combing through the crime scene, generating leads, following clues, tracking suspects, sneaking into premises etc. So yeah, that first few hours is genuinely impressive as a glimpse of what an immersive detective sim could be.

The Bad: The core game loop starts to feel repetitive very quickly. This is mainly due to the proc gen nature of all the cases apart from the tutorial. I really enjoy detective stories, whether they are novels, tv shows, movies, podcasts, but the thing that I'm drawn to is often the characters, setting and events surrounding the case as much as it is the nuts and bolts of the crimes themselves. If Sherlock Holmes solved the same crime in the same location using the same method every time then it would get pretty old pretty quick. Shadows of Doubt's main problem for me is that there's no compelling story surrounding any of the generated cases atm. It's just similar bare-bones scenarios with the same kinds of leads to follow each time. Personally, I think I'd much rather play a game that had just a handful of crafted, unique cases for me to solve (but still with the freedom to approach each one in my own way) rather than an infinite amount of procedural cases that feel just that.

I'm also not that keen on how systems like survival and combat are handled (although this may just come down to personal taste). Thirst, hunger, tiredness etc. feel tacked on and the shoddiness of the combat system makes it feel like the developers would rather you play the game without resorting to violence. It makes me wish that there was a mode of the game where I could play as a police detective rather than a PI so that I could just focus on solving crimes but not have to worry about the other aspects of the game (maybe with the option to break the rules and sneak into somewhere without a search warrant; rough up a suspect for evidence etc.).

I really want to love this game - it's the kind of thing I've been dreaming of playing for years and years - but I can't recommend it in the current state. I'm hopeful that the full release will address the main issues I have with it and look forward to playing the finished version.

Shadows of Doubt has a ton of soul and presents a level of immersion in its setting that you'll probably never find in any other game. Every NPC in the game has a full schedule, businesses open and close, apartments can be rented, customized, and lived in. Its potential as an early access title is enormous and it has essentially defined its own sub-genre of game. Even if you dislike the stealth-investigation pattern the game goes for, it's hard to dislike the deliciously well-defined setting, sufficiently detailed as to appear to have been adapted from another existing media but evidently, totally original. The aesthetics of sitting in your apartment, customizing it, and watching the city from the windows are unbeatable. Many games capture this sort of feeling but rarely, if ever, do they pair it with the idea that the city actually is doing something and the random pedestrians are persistent, real characters, with destinations, which may have meaning in regards to whatever current cases you're on.

However, in the six months since its early access release, it has only been treading water. Severe bugs work together with what may be design issues to do anything they can do reduce the immersion of the game environment - the title's strongest trait - to frustration. NPCs can get stuck and never do anything, interfering with attempts to solve their related cases. NPCs have interests that might be useful in narrowing down suspects, but the only real interest is "sports" and so it doesn't matter. Other NPC details, such as their sex, are almost completely irrelevant: anyone can be interested in anyone else and wear just about anything. This limits the amount of interesting or useful information that can be gained from an examination of their character and residence. The "cheats and liars" update lacks any significant punch because solving romance-related crimes is pretty much identical to solving any other crime: relationships lack any sort of qualifying detail, making the type of case feel like a small workshop mod rather than a milestone.

Critical case clues have been spawning inside of walls, and written messages hinting who might have done the crime can barely appear, written over windows and blinds or chain link fences, either invisible or simply illegible. Firearms are unusable, suiting the Columbo-esque detective motif the game may be shooting for, but acquiring a sword lets you effortlessly cut down every NPC in your path (merely to unconsciousness!) contradicting this previous direction the game chose. Police are dangerous but seldom appear. Crimes are forgiven when you go outside for a minute. It is very strange. The game's setting makes me think I should be avoiding violent confrontation, as I can't use the ranged weapons NPCs can use, but despite that violent confrontation is extremely effective and often the fastest way to solve any issue with no long-term consequences whatsoever.

NPCs will open fire on you regardless of location, however. Not only that, an NPC's crimes don't matter. In fact, being mugged and defending yourself with your fists will cause nearby NPCs to bravely rush to the aid of your attacker to take you down. This feels like a bug to fix a week or so into early access, but six months later it has persisted.

Cuffing an NPC, which is a pretty common endeavor as it is at least a bonus reward in a murder case, is completely broken. They are alerted to your presence - forever. You can run two blocks away and into another building and still be seen, with the red hue to the game's border and sound effects that relate. At the same time, the NPC will ask "is someone there?" What is going on? What is the intention? I can't tell: it feels rushed, and yet it has been untouched since launch.

The game is not fundamentally broken. It mostly needs maintenance and polish. It is several bug fixes and several small content additions away from being great. It is a few small choices in direction away from no longer being unclear about what it wants to be. However, it seems like the current trajectory of the game won't fix any of these issues soon - and possibly not ever.

I have mixed feelings about this one. It's a terrific concept that is held back by implementation.

The mechanics have a lot of potential, but the interface is cumbersome. Procedural generation can be good with enough variety. Unfortunately, like tiles of ocean textures, it doesn't take long before you start to see the repetitive patterns in the environment. Every location has the same core elements; the cookie-cutter edges start to become glaringly obvious. Everything is heavily scripted, and it's easy to slip between the cracks of the triggers and break things. Do things in an order the game doesn't expect, or if something gets bugged, and the simulation falls apart.

Some design choices are odd - there's about a dozen types of medical items, curing everything from headaches to broken bones, but for some reason every shop has an identical cork board covered with Polaroids of the staff and an identical note from the manager reminding the employees of the code to their office. There's huge variations in the kinds of food you can eat, but every building lobby and stairwell are identical. There's an entire system based around technological implants, which stick out as wildly anachronistic in a world of dot matrix printers and AOL like computer interfaces.
I don't know if that is a symptom of Early Access, or limited game design abilities. It's tough to tell if something is a result of janky design or early access.

With a larger studio at the helm, with a bigger budget and longer dev timeline, something like this could be great. If you look past the negatives, fans of the genre can look upon this as a preview of what games could be in the future.
This feels like one of the old Sierra games, like an early King's Quest game. So much open-ended potential, but heavily limited by the technology. A descendant of this game will be really great someday.
I feel like this leans more towards the territory of "tech demo" than "full fledged entertainment product". I can recommend it on that basis - if you want to see what could be - then it's not an expensive demo of the future. As a "fun" game? Not really.

This one might improve a bit in extended development, but I don't know how it could address the core issues without serious redesign.

Amazing game and a very innovative concept, and loved every second of it, but there's one problem I feel like with the crimes you're supposed to be solving, and that's the lack of motives. Theoretically, if I were to break into a soon-to-be-killer's home, I want to be able to find evidence that they're about to murder someone.

Most of the murders feel like random guy 1 kills random guy 2. The two guys can vaguely know each other, but not always. I think a solution to this would be before the killer acts, there should be a day or two where you set up the story. Maybe the killer signs the victim up to an insurance, then on the victim's computer, there's emails about them arguing with the insurance company trying to get their name taken off.

The game touches on this concept occasionally like in the stalker cases. But even in that case, even if you explore the killer's house, there's hardly any examples of the killer obsessing over their victims.

A few other things I would like is more complex people (maybe some lie to protect the killer, maybe some people have false testimonies, maybe there's some form of conspiracy, etc), non-serial killers (one and done murders), and some more stuff to do with cash other than decorate your room.

This game's concept is great, and I love playing it, but I can't recommend it quite yet. Lots of potential! I'm very excited to see what this game is capable of in the future!

Утром на улице нашли тело женщины, убитой тупым предметом, внутри нарисованного спреем сердечка, а на стене дома была надпись "Layre и R. навсегда". Там же рядом лежит молоток с неизвестными отпечатками на нём.
Спрашиваем бомжей на улице — видели ли что. Говорят был кто-то среднего телосложения. Камер на этой улице к сожалению нет.

R — все ж понятно. Пробираемся к жертве домой, смотрим адресную книгу что бы записать всех знакомых на R. Попутно не попадаемся на глаза мужу, который сидит в квартире то на диване, то где-то в углу.
Заодно пробираемся и взламываем в подвале телефонный щиток и смотрим послдение звонки по дому — ого кто-то звонил из кафе за несколько часов до убийства. Идём в кафе, пробираемся в комнату с компом, смотрим по камерам кто тёрся во время звонка — есть фотка, смотрим фотки персонала в кафе и видимо что это уборщик. Но отпечатки из личного дела у него другие, отметаем его.
Идём в полицию, взламываем комп, проверяем отпечатки всех друзей из телефонной книги на R — не подходят.
Проникаем к работодателю, находим стол HR с личными делами, отсматриваем все дела коллег на R и на другие буквы, но отпечатки все разные. Следствие зашло в тупик.

На утро новая жертва — убита соседка по этажу из другой квартиры — Yora прямо дома. Надпись на стене рядом с телом Yora и R. навсегда. Убита колющим, рядом нож с отпечатками как на первом месте убийства. Записываем всех из телефонной книги. Взламываем комп жертвы, смотрим письма — она писала доктору что за ней будто кто-то следит — женщина с черными волосами. Доктор выписал таблетки, доктор с именем на R.
Опрашиваем соседей с соседних этажей, видели кого-то среднего телосложения где-то во время убийства рядом с квартирой жертвы, все говорят одно и тоже.
Повторяем историю с проверкой имен в полиции и на работе — совпадений с отпечатками нет.
Проверяем теперь все имена из списка знакомых первой жертвы — так же нет совпадений по отпечаткам.
Смотрим совпадения между записными книгами обоих жертв — общих знакомых у них не было, только общались друг с другом.

Б — безысходность. Жертвы жили в одном доме. Может убийца тоже жилец? Дом пятиэтажный, жертвы на 4-м этаже. Обходим ещё раз соседей с соседних этажей — все как один видели кого-то среднего комплекции. Камеры в доме на запись не работают.
Осматриваем отпечатки на входные дверях квартир сверху вниз в подъезде первой жервы — 5-ый этаж одна квартира, одни отпечатки. На 3-ем этаже три квартиры, разные отпечатки, ещё ходят друг к другу в гости, в одной квартире проходной двор почти из десяти отпечатков.
Второй этаж — как и на третьем. Первый этаж, подъезд второй жертвы — отпечатки одного человека. Но стойте — рядом на стене отпечатки на на оружиях убийцы. Вламываемся в квартиру, повсюду отпечатки не убийцы, наверное он с ним живёт. Вдруг домой приходит хозяин — закручиваем в наручники — отпечатки не совпадают, по логинам компа видно что живёт один. Скрутили не того.

СБ - снова безысходность, ведь казалось дело уже почти раскрыто. Осталась квартира на первом под квартирой первой жертвы — проверяем отпечатки на двери — много отпечатков убийцы — проникаем, скручиваем, смотрим отпечатки — эта ОНА — некая Ridni. Заполняем бланк, сдаём в мерию — дело раскрыто!

Мораль — не все соседи одинаково полезны.

Расследовать несколько убийств, сделать несколько сайдквестов и т.д. - будет интересно, но долго. Особенно пока нет в интернете алгоритмов прохождений и многое надо делать понаитию разбираясь в иммерсивности игры.
В долгую наверное может стать однотипно - говорят чаще всего жертвы знакомы с убийцей - обошёл контакты, проверил коллег и раскрыл дело.

Но для примера выше я описал убийство в котором это было не так.

Очень.Классная.Игра. ⸜( *ˊᵕˋ* )⸝

Из багов на которые сама натыкалась вроде только проблемы с освещением и падение через текстуры.

Очень хотелось бы, чтобы на решении ошибок в игре не останавливались и добавляли всё больше возможностей, предметов, заведений, достижений, целей.

Хотя, может я неправильно определяю золотую середину для такой игры, но лично мне бы хотелось побольше взаимодействия с жителями, разных диалогов, возможно даже дружить с кем-то, враждовать или заводить семью. Это позволило бы игроку быть менее безответственным к тому, что он делает.
◉ Жители бы не забывали обиды просто так, могли бы напасть на твоего друга или пару, приревновать или просто захотеть отомстить за твоё плохое деяние.
◉ Подарки - как еда или напитки, (а может и какие-нибудь специальные предметы) помогали бы улучшать отношения с ними, а они бы, в свою очередь, охотнее бы с нами общались.
◉ Можно было бы добавить какие-нибудь сайты, может новостные, как газеты и комментарии жителей под ними (а там может был бы убийца, который пытался бы себя аккуратно выгородить, дать ложные показания или сожалеющие знакомые, которые писали о том, что ещё вчера там-то,там-то проводили время вместе! / Наверняка это тот человек, который следил за нами в последнее время!).
◉ Возможно сделать почту и v-love доступным для взаимодействия игроку с другими жителями. Как способ притвориться кем-то, для выведывания информации может быть.
◉ Возможность купить парик чтобы скрываться (не знаю есть ли она на данный момент в игре) и одежду, чтобы и в реальности притворяться, если сложность увеличиться не только уроном и люди будут запоминать тебя и твои дела, то это будет помогать. А так же если будет v-love где мы притворяемся, то можно переодеться и сделать вид, что мы тот человек, которым представились.

⁽⁽◝( • ω • )◜⁾⁾ Вариантов как можно разнообразить игру много. Моя любовь к детективам и одновременно к песочницам заставляет меня писать всё это и желать смешать одно в другом ещё сильнее, однако я понимаю, что каждый жанр хорош по-своему и излишнее старание близко у перебарщиванию, а это уже вредно. Поэтому просто надеюсь, что улучшения этой игры окажутся лучшими из возможных вариантов, а так же, что её ждёт ещё более светлое будущее.

Всем, кто собирается поиграть - приятной игры заранее (੭ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ✩‧₊˚
И просто хорошего вам дня :З
(герои, если дочитали, хд)
|･д･)ﾉ

i just robbed like half the city, broke into their homes, knocked them out cold with my bare fists, and scouraged through their belongings looking for paperclips to pick locks with with all the alarms going off while kicking down every single door due to having no lock picks Just to arrest the murderer's husband instead of the actual murderer and then having to go back to their home and knock the actual murderer out several times just to find their id
10/10 game

in this game you play as a professional thief who occasionally moonlights as a private investigator

Этот город прогнил…

Played the hell out of the demo, and now the early access release for about an hour. This game is awesome; the kind of immersive sim I've wanted for years. Scouring crime scenes for evidence, investigating leads, and catching killers makes for an addicting and engaging gameplay loop.



... And now, for a few notes about the state of the early access release.

I highly recommend this game, but it being early access comes with some issues. I'll post the ones I've encountered below. Hoping they can be fixed or improved in later updates.

- The game DOES have ultrawide support for anyone wondering, although performance might suffer a bit at resolutions higher than the standard 1920x1080.
- Game isn't optimised well. It stutters quite a bit, especially when entering new areas and walking around the street. The game is simulating a lot of things at once, so this is to be expected; but I think it can improve. - Some additional notes about performance; I'm running an 11th gen i7, 10GB RTX 3080, and 32 GB of RAM on an SSD--and I'm using Windows 10. I'm trying to play at 2560x1080 Ultrawide, but have had to cap the FPS to 30 for a more stable experience.
- Graphical bugs galore. Lots of Z-fighting on objects in the streets, reflections that don't render properly, etc. With high FOV you can see your other arm during certain animations. (ie. When you have the fingerprint scanner out)
- When inside an apartment you can often see parts of the world being unloaded if you look out the windows.
- No graphics settings for LOD / object rendering distance, lighting, or reflections. Only options at the moment are FOV, Post-Processing Settings, AA, resolution, and rain detail.
- Flashlight is VERY small, will also clip through objects if you get too close to them.
- Sometimes, it seems custom connections will stop rendering.
- No option to turn off chromatic aberration and it is used A LOT in the game. It becomes somewhat nauseating to look at especially because, depending on your status, the effect can be active on screen for hours at a time.
- Sometimes when you sit down on a chair, standing up will teleport you through a wall. (You can also get stuck out of bounds like this.)
- Weird AI behaviour regarding lockpicking street CCTV cameras. For some reason, civilians care WAY too much when you lockpick a CCTV camera. They will go to extreme lengths to stop you (pulling out guns, chasing you down with knives or hammers, etc). It feels like the AI doesn't have a sense of self preservation and won't report you to an enforcer, but instead take matters into their own hands without a second thought.
- If you sprint directly to a crime scene that was reported within an apartment, you can oftentimes find the killer leaving the scene due to the lockdown that occurs. This doesn't apply to crimes that occur on the street, though, since there are often a lot of random people around.
- Game crashes. A lot. I've noticed it especially when trying to use CCTV, where the game basically just kills itself while loading the footage.

Will update this review with more bugs as I play.

Şüphenin Gölgesi 1980'li yıllarda geçen bir dedektiflik simülasyonudur ve tek bir geliştiricinin elinden çıkmıştır. geliştirici Hayallerimizin dedektiflik oyununu açık dünya özgürlüğünde vereceğini söylemişti bizlere.Hatta cyberpunk temalı bir şehirde noir bir hikaye diye ballandıra ballandıra anlatmıştı.Rastgele oluşturulan şehirlerde yüzlerce insan yer alırken hem dedektiflik yapıp davaları çözüyor hem de günlük yaşantımızı sürdürüyoruz.şehirdeki herkesle konuşabileceğimiz gibi hepsinin bizden bağımsız,kendi hayatlarını yaşamaktalar oyun sizi kısa bir tutorial den sonra özgür bırakıyor aklınıza esen her şeyle ve herkezle etkileşime girebilmektesiniz.Her şeyi yapmakta özgürsünüz iyi bir dedektif olmak için kendinizi karakterinizin yerine koyup oyuna adapte olmalısınız bir davanın peşine düşerken mobese kayıtlaı vs her tür çöpler dahil araştırıp ip uçlarını birbirine bağlayıp davanızı ne zaman isterseniz kapatabilirsiniz.Ev satın alıp fatura ödeyebilir illegal işlerle de uğraşmak size kalmış.Özgürlük demişken oyuncuyu ne kadar özgür bıraktığına bir örnek vereyim Mesela bir karakterin parmak izini almak istiyorsunuz diyelim. Reddetti varsayalım.Kenarda duran deterjan paketini tutup, karakterin kafasına fırlatıp, sonra yumruklaya yumruklaya karakteri bayıltıp ardından parmak izini alabilirsiniz.Ya da uyumasını bekleyin ve evine gizlice girip kapı kollarından parmak izini alın.Veya sabah gidin, karakter iş yerine giderken onu takip edin. Sonra iş yerinde dokunduğu bir eşyadan parmak izini alabilirsiniz. Şiddetle Tavsiye ederim

Accidentally broke into a room next to the one I meant to go to, was spotted by a woman living there, knocked her out with a frying pan and robbed her of all her belongings. While selling the jewelry I had stolen, I realized the pawn shop owner was the person I was meant to steal confidential information from in the first place. :)

结论：暂时不推荐。

游戏有一个非常好的创意和框架，玩法有意思，但是在我短暂的体验中有几个对游戏体验影响比较大的点：

1.引导比较差。这点只要体验过游戏就可以感受到——我只能通过调查知道我的大概身份，然后被一通神秘电话+门下信的指引开始了案件的调查；过程中对UI没有系统地介绍诠释，对道具也没有用法用途讲解，左上方的吃喝绿色buff干嘛的？东西去哪买卖？躲在通风道里为啥又有温度系统？这些是我游玩过程中冒出的一个个问号，且没有得到游戏内的及时注解。

2.没有自动存档，存档完全由玩家手动管理。不知这是设计还是暂时的解决方案？可以SL大法，虽然几乎确保了玩家一定能过、不会卡关，但是同时对玩家的线性体验游戏的过程是打击较大的。同一个案件内，尸体也不会长腿跑了，线索也都在既定的位置，可以SL之后好像一下子难度变得特别诡异。

3.作为侦探早期的主要探案方法是——犯罪。作为一个退役警察，我一上来就要学习怎么破坏电力，怎么溜门撬锁，怎么偷盗，这样的剧情总归是很难有代入感的。是不是如果能安排成我需要在正常地获取线索的方法中穿插非法方案比较合理？譬如，我如果发现了尸体/证据，我就能合法地拿着相应的官方文件、权限去调查他人，调查地点，但是当线索不充分、直接证据链条断裂时，我则被迫去需要动用非法手段以取得一些证据以推进剧情。起码这样比目前设计的新手教程要合理不少。

4.优化问题。一进警察局就掉到20帧；我3060显卡，没改过设置的前提下从头到尾没超过60帧，日常40-50帧。

Literalmente llevo 3 horas ♥♥♥ un caso, recopilando multitud de pruebas y la única que me queda es buscar a un tío ♥♥♥ barba y bajito mientras voy de máquina en máquina comprando kola y donuts.
10/10

♥♥: he cerrado el caso, no encuentro a ese cabrón.

游戏根本没有所谓的什么证据链，并不存在根据线索推理出下一步行动的可能
沙盒模式里甚至有死于刀伤满地弹壳的情况
文件和电脑邮件几乎没有作用，全城市的市民发给爱人的邮件都是爱你像番茄
长相也根本分辨不出来特征，大街上走过去的行人千奇百怪
但我还是要给好评鼓励一下
这个想法和创意实在是太惊艳了
如果能真的实现预期的目标
这游戏将会在独立游戏史中留下浓墨重彩的一笔
加油！

I'd love to recommend this game and I had some nice hours of fun with it but for now my recommendation is: Let it cook!

Right now there are 3 major flaws that prevent me from recommending the game in its current state:
1) Performance issues
The game frequently stalls and sometimes even crashes on a high-end PC, this happens mostly during longer play-sessions so restarting can alleviate some of those problems. Some performance issues always exist, like opening the shop to buy furniture.
2) The game doesn't respect your senses
The game can sometimes be painful to look at, mind you I am not talking about graphic fidelity, I quite like that art style. What I mean is visual artifacts, screen tearing at the bottom of the screen, flashes, screen shaking. I've gotton headaches from playing this game and a friend got severe motion sickness. Audio-wise the game can also be pretty insulting to the ears, during one of the play sessions I thought my pc was struggling but when I took the headset of I noticed that the game was putting out a constant fan-like hum. Alarms can be pretty loud, music changes sudden and can be startling, like switching to a high-intensity music while nothing is happening.
3) Variety of gameplay
The core gameplay loop is quite nice. I enjoyed solving cases but it became too samey too quickly. There aren't any new mechanics introduced over time so once you get the hang of it, well that's it. For now, at least. For the future I'd like to see some shakeups to make the game harder and require new approaches. Maybe build on that social level system where some areas can only be accessed at a certain level or maybe the player can move to a higher society city, which also comes with new challenges and security systems to overcome. Maybe require the player to be more thorough with their investigation. Sure you found some fingerprints and a possible murder weapon, but is there gun powder residue on the culprit? Does the sword have the victims blood on it?

Overall this game shows a lot of promise and if you can overlook these flaws, I'd say go for it! Otherwise, let it cook and wait for a bit longer.

This game is really cool and unique and fun, but it's also really, really buggy. REALLY REALLY BUGGY.

I feel like the objectively correct review for this game is: "You should wishlist this game and check back and buy it in like 6 months or so after some more updates have been made and its less buggy. Unless of course you think the game looks so cool that you want to try it now. But it will be very buggy."

For example, the weather effects in this game are so badly implemented that they absolutely ruin performance. The game will be giving me like 5 FPS outside in the rain, then I'll go inside and it'll jump up to 60ish (or maybe not actually 60, but plenty smooth enough to play). I find the best way to play is set the weather change frequency in my game options to 0%, so that it never activates any of the weather effects. Which makes the game slightly easier, but also makes it playable.

Also, there's probably not enough content and variation at the moment. At the beginning, the game seemed impossibly hard. But I thought it was so neat that I just fooled around in the sandbox and eventually found all the ways you can get information and now the game seems way too easy. Basically any of the cases that come up will now either be trivial to solve, or slightly tedious but still basically easy to solve. But that's because I know all the secrets now. Apparently there's a big content addition planned, and this might improve things.

But I personally really like it.

Чуть ли не единственный проект в который хочется играть раз за разом.
Геймплей затягивает. Не трудно разобраться как играть (ну или почти) и начать "щёлкать" дела друг за другом.

Хорошо реализованный стелс.

Главное, что нужно и важно знать - Этот город прогнил...

Мне всегда кажутся забавными ситуации, когда стучишься в дверь к НПС, тебе открывают, отказываются что-либо говорить, а потом уходят на работу, закрывая за собой дверь. Пока непись не ушёл далеко, снова стучишься к нему в дверь, НПС возвращается и как ты стучит в свою же дверь =D

А ведь здесь ещё есть неплохой лор.



Персонаж не хочет спать.
Прошло 6 игровых суток, но спать так и не захотелось. Просто не продуман этот момент.

Часть дебафов особо ни на что не влияют.
Можно не тратиться на еду, воду, не греться (если не мешает тряска) и это почти никак не повлияет на геймплей.

Взял с трупа на улице ключ к его квартире, предполагаемое орудие убийства при обыске или случайно подобрал чужую вещь, а тебя заметили? Теперь тебя захотят убить все без исключения окружающие! Без шуток. (У 80-ти% горожан есть огнестрел или хотя бы ножи.)
Наблюдающие это копы просто глянут на бегущего тебя, на летящие в твою сторону пули и неторопливо пойдут дальше, если не присоединятся к стреляющим. (Благо, быстрые ноги не боятся... чего-то там...)

Вызываешь копов (911-0000) на место, где тебя вот-вот убьют или в квартиру убийцы, они прибегают, ломают дверь и отправляют ТЕБЯ на больничную койку (к слову о том, почему этот город прогнил...)

Нельзя курить (пока)...
Потратил почти 100 валюты, а, как оказалось, покурить нет возможности =/

Безнаказанность нашего персонажа.
Можно вынести весь дом на 100к+ крылышек, выйти из этого дома, дождаться пропажи статуса с камерой и без опасений возвращаться обратно.
UPD: В общем и целом, нужно развивать ИИ копов. Они тут только ради того, чтобы постоять на месте убийства и пострелять в персонажа.

После уже десятка сковываний в наручники понимаешь, что это можно заабузить. (Да простят меня все те, кто должны простить...)
И понеслось (Лучше не дочитывать это, если не хочешь становиться арбузером ->). Стучишь в дверь забегаешь за спину НПС, надеваешь наручники на него, обносишь дом/ищешь улики, открываешь дверь, выключаешь свет, снимаешь наручники, закрываешь дверь и всё. Уходишь безнаказанно (Ну или максимум получаешь пару тумаков от НПС).
(Хотелось бы, чтобы такого не было. Скажем, "НПС кричит, сосед зовёт копов, бум-бах и ты в больничке" или всё то же самое, только соседи сбегаются на выручку. Этого уже будет достаточно.)
UPD: Даже сожители никак не реагируют на любовника в наручниках, если не видят, как надеваешь их.
UPD2: Провернуть абуз можно ещё проще, если попроситься осмотреться в квартире, дать отойти от дверей и теперь непися не только проще заковать, а его сожитель не будет против нашего присутствия, так ещё и не замкнёт дверь.

НПС в наручниках способен закрывать и запирать двери.
Это как минимум непросто, если не невозможно вовсе.

Тупость ИИ.
Вот ты провернул абуз с наручниками, отбежал от непися. Погоня прекратилась (Если вообще была), стучишь в дверь к нему, а там тебе и рады!
UPD: Оказывается, что непись запоминает, что подобное происходило и уже через несколько сковываний или избиений тебе перестают быть рады.

Заметно, что контента пока маловато. Не хватает разнообразия.
И нет! Это не ощущается на 20-ом часу игры, да даже на 50-ом часу ещё будет терпимо. А вот потом... Скорее всего, отсутствие как такового разнообразия заставит дропнуть игру и ждать обещанный контент.
UPD: Я набрал очень высокий темп игры (Уж слишком сильно затягивает) (Рекорд по делам - 7 раскрытых за реальный час (те что сложные, с наградами от 2 000)) и вот уже на 40-вом часу игры замечаю, что однообразность действий надоедает понемногу.

Некоторые побочки у телефонов балансируют на грани возможности их выполнения.
Тебе говорят: "У меня спёрли мегадорогую безделушку, верни её мне, намусори в доме вора и сфоткай это всё." . Да вот только в доме нет никаких наводок на вора. Ни пальчиков, ни следов, ни записей с камер. Это почти тупиковое задание (почему почти, описал в спойлерах ниже).
Как и некоторые задания с наводками из кейсов. "У этого человека средний рост, голубые глаза и нет усов.". "А, да?". Именно такая реакция настигает тебя после подобной наводки, ведь таких НПС может заспавнить десятки! (Читать UPD2 ниже.)
UPD: Пальцы пропадают через 24 часа, потому квест, который провисел на доске примерно столько же времени, считаю трудновыполнимым.
UPD1: Квест на кражу дорогих вещей можно выполнить "ещё одним способом" (на самом деле, надо будет проделывать это же и с найденными отпечатками). Проверить всех из записной книги потерпевшего. Но этот способ очень затратный по времени. Вместо просьбы предоставить свои отпечатки, надо обыскивать сверху донизу все квартиры подозреваемых и их самих.
UPD2: Каким-то неведомым образом, наш персонаж приметит нужного гражданина, если просто поговорит с нужным неписем, а потом собрать больше 50% досье на него или просто собрать 75% досье.

Продолжим тему людьми на лавочках.
Порой спавнится такой перец у набережной, подходишь к нему, он вскакивает и требует с тебя денег. Приходится подбираться к ним со спины.

Синхродиск "Мощь" имбалансен. (Ну или улучшение на падение без урона.)
С ним можно подняться на 15-тый этаж на лифте, сразу отправить его на нулевой этаж, а как заканчиваешь обыски, спрыгнуть в шахту лифта. И неважно кто тебя преследует и есть ли в доме тревога! 5 секунд и ты уже бежишь по улице к ломбарду (ну или куда там обычно при такой ситуации бегут). Так получается куда быстрее, чем подняться на лифте и спуститься на нём же. (Больше "Мощь" на падение не ставлю.)
(Исправляется легко. Всего-то нужно поставить ограничение на высоту хотя бы в 5 этажей.)

Трупы не исчезают. Квартира остаётся открытой. Рядом шастает коп.
Можно как-то закрывать место убийства. Например, "обвести" труп, а само тело убрать. Двери в квартиры можно заколачивать, а уже на них вешать ленты. (Это лишь пример того, что можно сделать.)

В побочках начали выпадать квесты на НПС-убийц или которых убили.
Невыполнимые квесты (просидел 3 реальных часа на одном таком, пока не понял, что это убийца и его нигде на карте не было), приходится закрывать их.
Отсюда косвенно вытекает следующая придирка. Выдающие квесты неписи остаются сидеть на лавках и никуда не уходят. Мало того, что это нелогично, так ещё и слышал, что на таких может выпасть роль убийцы или убитого, а так как они просто сидят на лавках и не двигаются, дело об убийстве не появится. (Лучше поправьте в комментариях, если я не прав)



К чему точно могу придраться, так это к багу на пропажу процедурных убийств.
Знаю, что с этим сталкиваются игроки, но прежде сам не сталкивался. И вот сижу, раскрыл около полутора десятков побочек, а никого не убили. (Начал заново.)

buen juego, lastima que le metieron tanto reflejo que mi pc no lo corre jsjsk:c

first 5 hours of this game are unmatched

Ok game. I can see this being a 200+ hour game for me. Good on dollar per hour of entertainment.

非常滴自由啊，我现在都不破案了，到处偷东西。破什么案，楼里到处都是磁盘和升级瓶

Кто купил эту игру после стрима Шуса?

basicamente me senti L de death note tratando de resolver un caso de asesinato

Аве всем причастным!
Сделаем этот прогнивший город знаменитым во славу Легиона!

Я напился, случайно попал под камеру в закрытом офисе, меня застрелила турель когда я пытался выключить щиток, у меня забрали все деньги.

Я забыл первоначальную цель и спился

Я действительно не могу поверить, что подобная игра вышла в 2023 году. Мы её не заслуживаем.

Это буквально песочница с процедурно-генерируемым миром, где происходят убийства и прочая ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, в которой тебе, как детективу, нужно копаться и добираться до истины. И убийства здесь не происходят за кадром - они происходят в реальном времени. Если оказаться в нужное время в нужном месте, вы сможете застать преступление собственными глазами.

Я не знаю, как много здесь контента. Как быстро генерация начнет повторяться. Но я верю, что разраб будет наполнять эту игру контентом и сделает из нее просто песочницу-клондайк.

Я лично жду только двух вещей: ачивок и сюжетных квестов. Ну типа квестов на один раз. Было бы классно, если бы в один момент, к примеру, в городе появился культ, который нужно разоблачить. Но выполнять это задание больше одного раза было бы странно и тупо. Каждый день ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ в городе новый кровавый культ с жертвоприношениями - это странно. Но на один раз - кайф. Учитывая, что в начале детектива выгоняют из собственной квартиры и происходит что-то вроде сюжета, было бы неплохо раз в несколько выполненных заданий давать особенное, которое происходит лишь однажды. Может такое и есть, я всего 7 часов в ней провел.

Но даже без этого я готов рекомендовать эту игру буквально ВСЕМ.

Интерфейс только говнище ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

After eight hours of playtime I can safely say I'm probably going to enjoy this game for a while. It has some early access flaws that hopefully get ironed out over time and the road-map looks interesting enough knowing what the game already includes now.

It's slow paced and detail oriented as you look for clues and explore buildings / streets / air vents. Haven't had any performance issues on a 3070 & 5600x even with a "Very Large" city. Took me about five minutes to generate the city and get playing in it. Smaller cities generate a lot quicker obviously.

The first time you start you'll probably be overwhelmed with the amount of things you can interact with but just stick with the tutorial for at least a few sections to get your bearings. So far I haven't solved a murder case but it has lead me to break into several corporate buildings to hunt down information on people. Dodging cameras, watching for lasers, crawling under desks, learning peoples sleep and work schedules so you can break into their house while they work. Most of the time I honestly feel more like a burglar who just happens to like solving crimes on the side for the money. And because those cases might lead me to an even greater heist.

Do you like stealth?
Do you like noir pulp fiction?
Do you like taking things slow and savoring the ambiance?
Do you know how you would feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?

This might be what you're looking for.